| ISBN |
9780198229773 (hardback) |
| Name |
Asquith, Margot, 1864-1945 author. |
| Title |
Margot Asquith's Great War diary 1914-1916 : the view from Downing Street / selected and edited by Michael and Elanor Brock ; with the assistance of Mark Pottle. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Published |
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. |
| ©2014 |
| Description |
cxlvii, 417 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliography (p. 369-388) and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: DIARY -- pt. I 24 July--7 August 1914 -- pt. II 10 August--21 December 1914 -- pt. III January--13 April 1915 -- pt. IV 17 April--19 May 1915 -- pt. V 20 May--3 August 1915 -- pt. VI 4 August--15 November 1915 -- pt. VII 16 November--1915 4 May 1916 -- pt. VIII 5 May--29 August 1916 -- pt. IX 17 September--14 December 1916. |
| Summary |
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. She once described herself as 'a sort of political clairvoyant', but she did not anticipate the premier's fall, and it is for her candour, not her clairvoyance, that the diary is valuable. |
| Subjects |
Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928 |
| Diaries |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Biography |
| Other Names |
Brock, Michael editor. |
| Brock, Eleanor editor. |
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