Easy-Going Procrastinators
Ferdinand Mount: Margot Asquith’s War, 8 January 2015
Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914-16: The View from Downing Street
edited by Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock, selected by Eleanor Brock.
Oxford, 566 pp., £30, June 2014,978 0 19 822977 3 Show More
edited by Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock, selected by Eleanor Brock.
Oxford, 566 pp., £30, June 2014,
Margot at War: Love And Betrayal In Downing Street, 1912-16
by Anne de Courcy.
Weidenfeld, 376 pp., £20, November 2014,978 0 297 86983 2 Show More
by Anne de Courcy.
Weidenfeld, 376 pp., £20, November 2014,
The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain’s Rush To War, 1914
by Douglas Newton.
Verso, 386 pp., £20, July 2014,978 1 78168 350 7 Show More
by Douglas Newton.
Verso, 386 pp., £20, July 2014,
“... She thought that, for all their academic brilliance, Asquith’s children by his first wife, Helen, were poor successors to her own coterie: The clever group of nowadays is very inferior to my clever group called ‘Souls’. They are sexless and soulless, and so disloyal that they only hang together by a thread of mutual love of gossip and common ... ”