Marie Vassiltchikov

Praise for The Berlin Diaries 1940-45

Quite simply, one of the most extraordinary war diaries ever written. Innocent and knowing at once, it portrays the death of Old Europe through the eyes of a beautiful young aristocrat whose world itself is dying wi ...

John le Carré

Written with a vividness, detail, understanding and humanity that rank it beside Pepys on the Great Fire

Bernard Levin, Observer

A fascinating insight into a circle whose independence of mind could not be crushed by totalitarianism, Soviet or Nazi

Financial Times

Quite simply, one of the most extraordinary war diaries ever written. Innocent and knowing at once, it portrays the death of Old Europe through the eyes of a beautiful young aristocrat whose world itself is dying wi ...

John le Carré

Written with a vividness, detail, understanding and humanity that rank it beside Pepys on the Great Fire

Bernard Levin, Observer

A fascinating insight into a circle whose independence of mind could not be crushed by totalitarianism, Soviet or Nazi

Financial Times

Quite simply, one of the most extraordinary war diaries ever written. Innocent and knowing at once, it portrays the death of Old Europe through the eyes of a beautiful young aristocrat whose world itself is dying wi ...

John le Carré

Written with a vividness, detail, understanding and humanity that rank it beside Pepys on the Great Fire

Bernard Levin, Observer

A fascinating insight into a circle whose independence of mind could not be crushed by totalitarianism, Soviet or Nazi

Financial Times