On 6 June 1944, D Day, Allied troops landed in France, opening the way to eventual history. In this controversial reappraisal of the course of World War II, John Grigg suggests that the Allied invasion could have been launched succesfully in 1943. Beginning with America's entry into the war, Grigg explores policy and grand military strategy, especially the Churchill-Roosevelt relationship. Most crucially he explores the politics of the decision to delay invasion until 1944 and its terrible repercussions.

1943

Grigg, John

History

Penguin Press

The first volume of John Grigg's biography covers the future Prime Minister's life from 1863 to 1902. Grigg re-examines many stock assumptions about Lloyd George, never losing sight of the man behind the politician, nor forgetting that politics were, after all, the dominating passion in his life. What emerges is, consequently, more than a study of the young Lloyd George; it is in many respects an interpretation of the man, both as a private individual and as a major historic personality. It should provide an entertaining read for anyone interested in modern British history, or in the psychology of genius.

Lloyd George: The Young Lloyd George

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The outbreak of the European war altered the whole course of Lloyd George's life and as Minister of Munitions, he carried through what was almost another Industrial Revolution - and a social one as well. However his imaginative views on strategy brought him into conflict with professional warlords, and his advocacy of conscription outraged many of his liberal colleagues. John Grigg describes this momentous phase in his life with drama and candour. He brings to life a landmark era of British political and constitutional history and the man who shaped it.

Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912-1916

Penguin??Books

The Young Lloyd George

Drawing upon letters and documented speeches, this biography of Lloyd George traces his life from his birth in 1863 to the end of the Boer War in 1902. The volume provides insights into George's relationships with his family, with his guardian Richard Lloyd and with Parliamentary colleagues.

The young Lloyd George

EYRE METHUEN

This sequel to the author's "The Young Lloyd George", describes the career of David Lloyd George from 1902 to 1911. The book's central drama is the political and constitutional drama surrounding his 1909 Budget, but there are many sub-plots, including his dealings with the suffragettes.

Lloyd George : The People's Champion 1902 - 1911

1943 the victory that never was

Military

Hill Wang

<p>The third volume of John Grigg's highly praised biography begins at a moment when Lloyd George is at a pinnacle of success and achievement. Yet the next two years see a crisis in his personal and political life. Almost at once his career s threatened by a financial scandal which nearly destroys it, and his personal life undergoes a significant change when he falls in love with Frances Stevenson, a woman half his age who becomes his secretary, mistress and (many years later) his wife. At the same time he is trying to recover for the Liberals the momentum of social reform that his 1909 budget and health insurance scheme earlier provided. The issue of Home Rule for Ireland comes to the fore again, and Lloyd George becomes involved in his first attempt to negotiate an Irish settlement.Then the whole course of his own and the country's life is changed by the outbreak of European War, and by Britain's decision, which he reluctantly but firmly supports, to intervene in it. Within weeks he is transformed from a great but controversial peace minister into one whom even his former enemies hail as a great war minister. He swiftly grasps the need to mobilize the nation's resources on a scale never before contemplated, and to use the power of the State in a way repugnant to traditional English, and more especially Liberal values. As Minister of Munitions he carries through what is almost another industrial revolution -- and a social one as well. At the same time his imaginative views on strategy bring him into conflict with the professional warlords, and his advocacy of conscription outrages many of his Liberal colleagues. Eventually his dissatisfaction with the higher direction of the war leads him to an act of revolt which brings the Asquith government down and results in his own appointment as Prime Minister.John Grigg describes this momentous phase of his life dramatically, and with an abundance of vivid detail. The story is told with sympathy but by no means uncritically. As in the two previous volumes, the author's aim is to present Lloyd George as he really was, both as a politician and man, The treatment therefore is entirely candid, and while Lloyd George's astonishing talents and merits are clearly exhibited, no attempt is made to disguise his faults. The book ends with the formation in December 1916 of his government, whose many novel and unorthodox features make it a landmark in British constitutional history.</p>

Lloyd George: From Peace to War, 1912-16

Europe

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Lloyd George: the People's Champion, 1902-1911

Lloyd George: The People's Champion, 1902-1911

Historical

University of California Press

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