Sir John Rupert Colville, CB, CVO (28 January 1915 – 19 November 1987), known as Jock Colville, was a British civil servant. He is best known for his diaries, which provide an intimate view of number 10 Downing Street during the wartime Premiership of Winston Churchill.
Books in order of publication:
Fools’ Pleasure, 1935
Action This Day-Working with Churchill, 1968
Man of Valour: Field Marshal Lord Gort V.C., 1972
Footprints in Time, 1976
The New Elizabethans, 1977
The Portrait of a General, 1980
The Churchillians, 1981
Strange Inheritance, 1983
The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955, 1985
Those Lambtons!, 1988 (released posthumously)
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