Painful Extractions

Illustrated autobiography of Lord Henniker (1916-2004), including pre-war service with the Foreign Office, wartime in Yugoslavia with Fitzroy Maclean and Tito, postwar with Ernest Bevin, marriage to Osla Benning, Ambassador to Jordan and Denmark, Director-General of British Council, marriage to Julia Poland and their rejuvenation of the Thornham Estate in Suffolk. The Guardian called the book 'breezy and modest'.