To War with Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly 1939–1945 is a memoir of World War II written, in diary form, by Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, that was first published in 1994 to immediate and general critical acclaim.The actor-novelist Sir Dirk Bogarde wrote in the London Daily Telegraph: "If you buy one more book this year, do make it To War with Whitaker." The author Robert Rhodes-James wrote in the London Sunday Express: "An extraordinary story.