Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916
The View from Downing Street
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 March 2016
- ISBN 9780198737728
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 234x164x42 mm
- Weight 752 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 black and white figures/illustrations 0
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Short description:
A Downing Street diary with a difference; offering a unique record and a fascinating insight into the British government during WWI, written by Margot Asquith, the wife of the prime minister, H. H. Asquith.
MoreLong description:
Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith's early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by Lloyd George, whose career he had done so much to promote. Margot had both the literary gifts and the vantage point to create, in her diary of these years, a compelling record of her husband's fall from grace.
An intellectual socialite with the airs, if not the lineage, of an aristocrat, Margot was both a spectator and a participant in the events she describes, and in public affairs could be an ally or an embarrassment - sometimes both. Her diary vividly evokes the wartime milieu as experienced in 10 Downing Street, and describes the great political battles that lay behind the warfare on the Western Front, in which Asquith would himself lose his eldest son. The writing teems with character sketches, including Lloyd George ('a natural adventurer who may make or mar himself any day'), Churchill ('Winston's vanity is septic'), and Kitchener ('a man brutal by nature and by pose').
Never previously published, this candid, witty, and worldly diary gives us a unique insider's view of the centre of power, and an introduction by Michael Brock, in addition to explanatory footnotes and appendices written with his wife Eleanor, provide the context and background information we need to appreciate them to the full.
expertly edited by Michael and Eleanor Brock
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
Editorial note
List of illustrations
Family Trees
Chronology
Introduction
Margot's Diary
24 July to 7 August 1914
10 August to 21 December 1914
January to 13 April 1915
17 April to 19 May 1915
20 May to 3 August 1915
4 August to 15 November 1915
16 November 1915 to 4 May 1916
5 May to 29 August 1916
17 September to 14 December 1916
Epilogue
Short titles (and bibliography) of sources used
Appendix 1: Biographical notes
