Slumming it, for Missie, was trying to do without lipstick every day. When basic foodstuffs were rationed they ate lobsters when beer was in short supply they drank champagne when clothing became rationed they turned to the milliner for style, and even when they were fleeing bombs and the Soviet advance finding a hairdresser was still of paramount importance. Berlin Diaries, 1940-45 Vassiltchikov, Marie Published byMethuen Publishing Ltd, 1987 ISBN 10: 0413143708ISBN 13: 9780413143709 Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom Contact seller Seller Rating: Used- SoftcoverCondition: Good £ 3. In the first few years of war, while their embassy friends were still at large, they attended parties and balls and the fact that they were in a country at war served mainly to add a little spice to their daily lives. Buy a cheap copy of Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 book by Marie Vassiltchikov. Vassiltchikov, Marie (Edited and with a Foreword by George Vassiltchikov and with an Introduction by Christabel Bielenberg. They seemed to have a rather louche attitude to the idea of working for a living, although by Missie's own account they were impoverished. The Berlin diaries 1940 - 1945 of Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov. Vassiltchikov, who died in 1978, kept a diary of her work at the German Foreign Ministry. In fact Missie and the other 'Bright Young Things' seem to have had strangely charmed lives. Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 Marie Vassiltchikov. Missie, however, escaped although she and another aristocrat seemed to court the attentions of the German authorities by conniving to bring food to their imprisoned colleagues and communicate with them.
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