Editing Harold Macmillan (section)

===Return to Macmillan Publishers===
In retirement Macmillan took up the chairmanship of his family's publishing house, Macmillan Publishers, from 1964 to 1974. The publishing firm remained in family hands until a majority share was purchased in 1995 by the [[Holtzbrinck Publishing Group]]; the imprint persists.
Macmillan brought out a six-volume autobiography:

# ''Winds of Change, 1914–1939'' (1966) {{ISBN|0-333-06639-1}}
# ''The Blast of War, 1939–1945'' (1967) {{ISBN|0-333-00358-6}}
# ''Tides of Fortune, 1945–1955'' (1969) {{ISBN|0-333-04077-5}}
# ''Riding the Storm, 1956–1959'' (1971) {{ISBN|0-333-10310-6}}
# ''Pointing the Way, 1959–1961'' (1972) {{ISBN|0-333-12411-1}}
# ''At the End of the Day, 1961–1963'' (1973) {{ISBN|0-333-12413-8}}

Macmillan's biographer acknowledges that his memoirs were considered "heavy going".{{sfn|Thorpe|2010|p=587}} Reading these volumes was said by Macmillan's political enemy Enoch Powell to induce "a sensation akin to that of chewing on cardboard".<ref>Richard Vinen: ''Thatcher's Britain. The Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s''. (Simon & Schuster, London 2009), p. 316</ref> Butler wrote in his review of ''Riding the Storm'': "Altogether this massive work will keep anybody busy for several weeks."{{sfn|Howard|1987|p=353}}

Macmillan's wartime diaries were better received.
* ''War Diaries: Politics and War in the Mediterranean, January 1943&nbsp;– May 1945'' (London: Macmillan, 1984) {{ISBN|0-333-37198-4}}

Since Macmillan's death, his diaries for the 1950s and 1960s have also been published, both edited by [[Peter Catterall]]:
* ''The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950–57'' (London: Macmillan, 2003) {{ISBN|0-333-71167-X}}
* ''The Macmillan Diaries Vol II: Prime Minister and After 1957–1966'' (London: Macmillan, 2011) {{ISBN|1-405-04721-6}}

Macmillan burned his diary for the climax of the Suez Affair, supposedly at Eden's request, although in Campbell's view more likely to protect his own reputation.{{sfn|Campbell|2010|p=266}}