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| | Lynne Olson, author of Troublesome Young Men |
 | | Cartland died a soldier’s death in 1940, and the news took his colleagues back to the moment almost a year earlier when he had told Chamberlain that 'we may be going to die.' According to Harold Nicolson: 'We shall forever remember him as he was at that moment. |
 | | The heroes of the day are Harold Macmillan, Anthony Eden, Duff Cooper, Bob Boothby, 'Bobbety' Cranbourne, Ronald Cartland, Harold Nicolson and Leo Amery. |
 | | When she describes the price paid by the rebels (Cartwright is killed in the war, Boothby is silenced by political scandal, Macmillan is humiliated by his wife's long affair with Boothby), Olson is deeply affecting. |
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