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From Downing Street to the Trenches - First-hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916 (Hardcover)
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From Downing Street to the Trenches - First-hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916 (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated
young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly
over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be
'the safest place'? These compelling eye-witness accounts convey
what it was really like to experience the first two years of the
war up until the fall of Asquith's government, without the benefit
of hindsight or the accumulated wisdom of a hundred years of
discussion and writing. Using the rich manuscript resources of the
Bodleian Libraries, the book features key extracts from letters and
diaries of members of the Cabinet, academic and literary figures,
student soldiers and a village rector. The letters of politicians
reveal the strain of war leadership and throw light on the downfall
of Asquith in 1916, while the experiences of the young Harold
Macmillan in the trenches, vividly described in letters home,
marked the beginning of his road to Downing Street. It was
forbidden to record Cabinet discussions, but Lewis Harcourt's
unauthorised diary provides a window on Asquith's government,
complete with character sketches of some of the leading players,
including Winston Churchill. Meanwhile, in one Essex village, the
local rector compiled a diary to record the impact of war on his
community. These fascinating contemporary papers paint a highly
personal and immediate picture of the war as it happened. Fear,
anger, death and sorrow are always present, but so too are
idealism, excitement, humour, boredom and even beauty.
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