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 deCourcy.
Weidenfeld, 376 pp., £20, November 2014,978 0 297 86983 2 Show More
by Anne deCourcy.
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,
“... of clothes and manners, foods and amusements of society than the perpetual political crises’. Anne deCourcy’s Margot at War is lighter in tone and lacks scholarly pretensions or apparatus. But it conveys Margot’s milieu with a nice touch and takes time away from this enclosed self-regarding world to give us ... ”
