The Berlin Diaries of Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov 1940-1945

These wartime diaries, kept in German-occupied Berlin, record the daily life of Marie Vassiltchikov, a young White Russian princess working in the German Foreign Office. She notes blackouts, bombing, rationing, embassy and aristocratic circles, and the July 1944 plot against Hitler, several of whose participants she knew. Entries move between office routine, ruined streets, and weekends at country houses still pretending to a social season. The voice is private and contemporary, not retrospective memoir. The book is an eyewitness journal of the capital at war, not a history of the Eastern Front and not a novel of resistance.

Full black cloth with a pattern in red by Sebastian Carter. Grey endleaves. Grey slipcase.