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The Asquiths / Colin Clifford.
LIBRA DA566.9.O7 C58 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clifford, Colin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928--Family.
- Asquith, H. H.
- Asquith family.
- Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928.
- Prime ministers--Family relationships--Great Britain.
- Prime ministers.
- Prime ministers--Family relationships.
- History.
- Families.
- Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1910-1936.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--History--20th century--Biography.
- Great Britain--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 528 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : John Murray, 2003.
- Summary:
- In late Edwardian Britain, the Asquiths rose to the top of both politics and society; they would, however, also come to epitomize the generations shattered by the First World War. Colin Clifford recounts their lives as Britain descended into turmoil, with the Asquith sons fighting in the trenches while their father, as Prime Minister, struggled to direct the bloodiest conflict in his country's history. At the heart of this story are four Asquith children: Raymond, brilliant Oxford scholar, who died leading his men into battle on the Somme; shy "Beb," artillery officer and poet, who overcame shell shock to face the horrors of Passchendaele; "Oc," whom General Freyberg described as "the bravest man I ever knew"; and their mercurial sister Violet, her father's most ardent supporter. Drawing on a wealth of new material, The Asquiths is a magnificent saga of public and private lives, politics and society, peace and war.
- Contents:
- Dramatis Personae xiv
- 2. Miss Margot Tennant 15
- 3. 'You have made me a different man' 32
- 4. 'An abyss of domesticity' 54
- 5. 'Diverted from the sterner mode of life' 78
- 6. 'Of presidential stock' 95
- 7. 'How dare you become Prime Minister when I'm away' 114
- 8. 'The governess of all the world' 135
- 9. A family crisis and a political setback 159
- 10. 'What a fine fellow he is to serve under' 178
- 11. 'No one was left with a shred of reputation' 200
- 12. 'There's a germ of violence in the air' 214
- 13. The Asquiths go to war 227
- 14. 'To make a poet's grave' 252
- 15. 'A terrible gamble' 273
- 16. 'Feeling as if he would crack up' 288
- 17. 'To know more dead than living people' 303
- 18. 'The awful anxieties of Downing Street' 329
- 19. The brink of doom 348
- 20. Nemesis on the Somme 363
- 21. 'An aerial tornado, from which I cannot escape' 379
- 22. 'A master of life's rough and tumble' 397
- 23. 'There is no doubt that Oc is a born soldier' 418
- 24. Beb's 'Battle in the Mist' 433
- 25. 'A gentleman and not a politician' 447
- Epilogue: 'Servant and son of England' 469.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [506]-511) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719565251
- OCLC:
- 187518831
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