Did Lloyd George mean war?
Michael Brock, 26 November 1987
David Lloyd George: A Political Life. The Architect of Change, 1863-1912
by Bentley BrinkerhoffGilbert.
Batsford, 546 pp., £25, April 1987,0 7134 5558 6 Show More
by Bentley BrinkerhoffGilbert.
Batsford, 546 pp., £25, April 1987,
“... Bentley Gilbert is a historian well-equipped to strip off myths and expose facts. All his skills were needed here: during some seventeen years of ministerial life Lloyd George took a hand in five books about himself, and much distortion resulted. After the war, for instance, Ll.G. hoped that his long struggle against Naval expenditure had been forgotten ... ”