MARGOT ASQUITH'S GREAT WAR DIARY 1914-1916: the view from Downing Street.
Selected and Edited by Michael and Eleanor Brock. With the assistance of Mark Pottle. Pp. cxlviii+418(last blank), text illustrations, appendices (family trees, map of the Western Front, chronology, biographical notes), bibliography, index; med. 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014. First edition. *Diary kept by Margot Asquith, the wife of British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, from the outbreak of the First World War until her husband's departure from office in December 1916. 'These years were as catastrophic for the Asquiths as for British society at large, and Margot offers a unique perspective of H. H. Asquith as a wartime Premier, seen through his marriage' [Preface]. Item #178781
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