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Lord Riddell's War Diary 1914-1918 [1933]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at Stanford University https://books.google.com/books?id=-HIZAAAAIAAJ First edition May 1933. Reprinted June 1933 The Preface says "For the most part this book consists of extracts from a diary I kept for sixteen years, beginning in 1908 and ending in 1924. The extracts are restricted to the war period-July 1914 to November 1918. I am publishing them for two reasons: first, because they give an intimate picture of many of the leading actors in that great tragedy, and therefore may perhaps be regarded as of historical interest, and second, because they explain the conditions under which the Press worked during the war. If the narrative appears jerky, it is due to the fact that it has been necessary to excise passages which cannot be published for some years to come". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Riddell,_1st_Baron_Riddell (Wikipedia) During the First World War, Riddell liaised between the government and the press and represented the British press barons at the Paris Peace Conference and later peace conferences. In the published versions Riddell omitted much sensitive information. In 1986 the original diaries were edited by McEwen

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