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Margot Asquiths Great War Diary 1914-1916: the View from Downing Street Free FREE MARGOT ASQUITHS GREAT WAR DIARY 1914- 1916: THE VIEW FROM DOWNING STREET PDF Michael Brock,Eleanor Brock | 568 pages | 26 Aug 2014 | Oxford University Press | 9780198229773 | English | Oxford, United Kingdom Margot Asquith's Great War Diary The View from Downing Street | Reviews in History Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Michael George Brock Editor. Eleanor Brock Editor. Asquith's early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December 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 Margot Asquiths Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street 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 center of power and an introduction by Michael Brock, in addition to explanatory footnotes and appendices written Margot Asquiths Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street his wife Eleanor, provide the context and background information we need to appreciate them to the full. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Margot Asquiths Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 23, Book Batter rated it really liked it. No doubt Margot fully believed Margot Asquiths Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street the truth of this statement, just as she believed in her own integrity as a diarist and the veracity of her own journal entries. Feb 02, Richard Thomas rated it it was amazing Shelves: memoirs-diaries-etc. A very interesting addition to the literature of the Great War. Margot Asquith was at but not in the centre of events. She was an acute observer and participant who on occasions missed clear points. She was acute and intelligent but also indiscreet, and sometime quite obnoxious. The diaries are well written and absorbing. View 1 comment. Nov 15, David Lough rated it really liked it. A fascinating read - a highly opinionated, inside account of the characters at the heart of the Liberal and then Coalition government running Britain and the war from to Margot Margot Asquiths Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street had a view on everyone and everything and did not shrink from voicing it, either to her husband's colleagues or her diary. Politics for her revolved around personalities, whom she prided herself on being able to decipher - but her loyalty to her husband was only one of the limitations to her judgement. Nonetheless there is much to fascinate the historian - valuable insights and inner accounts of Downing Street crises in the first half of the war. There is an excellent introduction, too, from Michael Brock. Oct 03, Andrea Engle rated it really liked it Shelves: books-read Dec 31, Lynne rated it liked it. I can't imagine many readers devouring the zillions of footnotes, but maybe they will. It is heavy with annotation and Monday morning quarterbacking by the authors about how wrong Margot, the British prime minister's wife, was in her judgments of so-and-so. She did meddle unbelievably often in matters of state, but she was amazingly supportive of her husband and evidently blind to his faults. 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Margot Asquith's Great War Diary The View from Downing Street by Margot Asquith Fascinating and well edited. Goes well with the editors' other work on the Asquiths, which together form a real labour of love and scholarship. Margot Asquith. Asquith's early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, Margot Asquiths Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street in December 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 Margot Asquiths Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street and by pose'. Witty and worldly, Margot also possessed a childlike vulnerability: 'This is the 84th day of the war' she wrote in October'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. 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. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley. Michael Brock died in April Michael G. BrockEleanor Brock. Margot Asquith and the first world war - Telling tales | Books & arts | The Economist As a global organization, we, like many others, recognize the significant threat posed by the coronavirus. During this time, we have made some of our learning resources freely accessible. Our distribution centers are open and orders can be placed online. 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