Deceits of time (Hardcover, 1st American ed)

This novel is about a biographer trying to find out the truth about a member of the british government in world war ii who collaborated with some of his peers in germany to bring about the end of the war- he was in addition a fixture in between-the-wars cliveden-ish society and a lot of the research involves re-creating those country-house weekends. NOT UK/OM