This is the first memoir of Muggeridge, there is a second but a proposed third never eventuated.
This is the first time I've read this in about 15 years and it is still some of the best writing you will ever come across.
Muggeridge may have been a A class hypocrite in his espousing of 'christian' values all the while being an inveterate toucher of women. Staff at the BBC had an acronym for him " NSIT" - Not Safe In Taxis, a title befitting a serial groper. But this aside he was a brilliant user of the English language and this is a wonderful read.
Any aspiring communist out there should read this, have a think and then read it again. Here is a man raised in a extreme left wing household. The Webbs were family friends. This is a man who with his wife actually sold up in England and moved to Russia, the workers paradise, and there he saw the friends 'disappearing' ,the machine at work. This experience turned him in to a right wing christian.
So, there is two excellent reason to read this, one, great writing, two, a time line on left wing disillusionment . Recommended
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