Description: A Downing Street diary with a difference, offering a unique record and a fascinating insight into the British government during WWI, written by Margot Asquith, the wife of the prime minister, H. H. Asquith.
Review Quotes:
"Michael and Eleanor Brock have edited Margot's writing with meticulous academic precision. This diary is an invaluable and fascinating text, and we must be thankful to the Brocks for producing it." --Literary Review
"Almost every page of her diary carries an interesting remark. The introduction is a model of its kind, setting people and events in context in masterly fashion." --Spectator
"The diaries start with the lead-up to war and end with the fall of the last Liberal government and David Lloyd George's extraordinary coup against the prime minister. Mrs. Asquith is well placed to watch it all. Michael and Eleanor Brock have done a fine job as editors. Their footnotes signpost all the major events of the great war and provide the reader with some delicious quotes." --The Economist
"[A] beautiful work of conjugal editorship by Eleanor Brock and her late husband." --The Daily Telegraph