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,
“... hot to fight for it. Clark demonstrates beyond any doubt that the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was no random outrage, but an operation carefully planned by the higher reaches of the Serbian security service, certainly including its chief, the notorious ‘Apis’, and no doubt with a nod from the elusive, unstoppable prime minister, Nikola ... ”