The way we were: Hitler's recollections of Paris and Rome

Vermouth in a glass 1903 Lt-Col Newnham-Davis describes a Venetian breakfast: “Begin with a Vermouth Amaro in lieu of a cocktail. For hors d’oeuvres have a few small crabs cold, mashed up with...

Extracts from memoirs and diaries

"Oscar Wilde, I pity you because you must be suffering more than we"

“My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite”

Extracts from memoirs and diaries

Drink is the organising principle of this entertaining memoir

Extracts from memoirs and diaries

In this month's "The way we were," Ian Irvine explores diets detailed in memoirs and letters

Sylvia Plath "could cry with happiness", while Jeremy Lewis found Dublin "quite dreadful"