The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart - Volume One, 1915-1938

436pp, plus section of photographic monochrome illustrations. In deep red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (cloth very slightly rubbed on edges, small mark on fore edge). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. An edited compilation of the diaries and letters of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat, journalist, author, secret agent and footballer. Bruce Lockhart rose to fame through the publication of his Memoirs of a British Agent, which told of his failed effort to sabotage the Bolshevik Revolution in Moscow in 1918, by assassinating Lenin and instigating a coup. His diaries reveal, among other things, that he struggled for much of his life with alcoholism. 8vo.