Ancestral voices / James Lees-Milne.

Main entry:

Lees-Milne, James.

Title & Author:

Ancestral voices / James Lees-Milne.

Publication:

London : Chatto & Windus, 1975.

Description:

x, 301 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Continued by Prophesying peace.
Autobiographical.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

This edition contains diaries from1942-1943. After being invalided out of the Army in 1941, Mr. Lees-Milne rejoined the Headquarters Staff of The National Trust. Over the next two years he visited countless stately homes and historic buildings whose owners wished to hand them over to the Trust. These diaries provide a vivid first-hand account of country house life in wartime England as well as sketches of eccentric owners.--From the dust jacket.

ISBN:

0701121106
9780701121105

Subject:

Lees-Milne, James.
Architectural historians England Biography.
Historiens de l'architecture Angleterre Biographies.
Architectural historians
England

Form/genre:

diaries.
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Diaries.
Journaux intimes.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 1529
Call No.: W14929; ID:87-B11293
Status: Available

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