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Auteur(s) : Asquith, Margot (1864-1945)
Titre(s) : Margot Asquith's Great War diary 1914-1916 [Texte imprimé] : the view from Downing Street / selected and edited by Michael and Eleanor Brock ; with the assistance of Mark Pottle
Publication : Corby : Oxford University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (520 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : 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. Margot
was both a spectator of, and a participant in, the events that she describes, and
in public affairs could be an ally or an embarrassment - sometimes both. Her diary
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. Her writing
teems with character sketches, including those of 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'). Witty and worldly, Margot also possessed
a childlike vulnerability: 'This is the 84th day of the war' she wrote in October
1914, 'and speaking for myself I have never felt the same person since. I don't mean
to say I have improved! On the contrary...'. This volume brings together a wealth
of previously-unpublished source material with an introductory essay from Michael
and Eleanor Brock, two of the leading authorities in the field. This will be vital
reading for anyone with an interest in the history of World War I or in British politics
of the time
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Brock, Eleanor. Éditeur scientifique
Brock, Michael G. (1920-2014). Éditeur scientifique
Pottle, Mark. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Asquith, Margot (1864-1945)
Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) -- Angleterre (GB) -- Sources
Chefs de gouvernement -- Conjoints -- Angleterre (GB) -- Sources
Genre ou forme : Journaux intimes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198229773. - ISBN 0198229771
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43884847r
Notice n° :
FRBNF43884847
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