Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916
The View from Downing Street
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
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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.
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916 “
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Editorial note
- List of illustrations
- Family Trees
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Margot's Diary
- 1: 24 July to 7 August 1914
- 2: 10 August to 21 December 1914
- 3: January to 13 April 1915
- 4: 17 April to 19 May 1915
- 5: 20 May to 3 August 1915
- 6: 4 August to 15 November 1915
- 7: 16 November 1915 to 4 May 1916
- 8: 5 May to 29 August 1916
- 9: 17 September to 14 December 1916
- Epilogue
- Short titles (and bibliography) of sources used
- Appendix 1: Biographical notes
Autoren-Porträt
Michael Brock was a modern historian, educationalist, and Oxford college head; he was Vice-President of Wolfson College; Director of the School of Education at Exeter University; Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford; and Warden of St George's House, Windsor Castle; he is the author of The Great Reform Act, and co-editor of the two nineteenth-century volumes in the History of the University of Oxford. With his wife, Eleanor Brock, a former schoolteacher, he edited the acclaimed OUP edition H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley. Michael Brock died in April 2014.Bibliographische Angaben
- 2016, 576 Seiten, Maße: 15,9 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Michael Brock, Eleanor Brock
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198737726
- ISBN-13: 9780198737728
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.02.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
expertly edited by Michael and Eleanor Brock Jane Shilling, Daily Mail
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