Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters

Author:   John Jolliffe
Publisher:   The History Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780750985741


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   12 January 2018
Format:   Paperback
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A long-anticipated reissue of the letters of one of the most enigmatic characters the 'Corrupt Coterie' of World War I. Eldest son of the Prime Minister, with an outstanding academic record at Oxford, Raymond Asquith devoted his great talents to friendship, preferring conversation and literature to the struggle for worldly success. In this collection, edited by his grandson, there are touching and revealing letters to friends as diverse as Winston Churchill and Lady Diana Cooper, love letters to his wife, Katherine, as well as frank and witty anecdotes about many of the major social figures and politicians of the day. His letters from the Western Front, before his death on the Somme in 1916, are as memorable as anything in the painfully emotive literature of the period. AUTHOR: John Jolliffe, now retired, was the editorial director of Constable for eight years, and was also the author or editor of five previous books on historical subjects, including The Diaries of Benjamin Haydon and The Chronicles of Froissart. He has been a regular reviewer for The Spectator and Salisbury Reviewer, and has also contributed to Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph and Independent. SELLING POINTS: . 'My brilliant hero friend' Winston Churchill about Raymond Asquith . 'Witty, informed, acid and deliciously frank about his famous contemporaries' The Times . 'His descriptions of the conditions in the trenches and his comments on the general organisation are bitingly witty and shrewd' Evening Standard . 'Depicts more elegantly and eloquently than a dozen lesser volumes the lives, standards, hopes and tragic ends of almost an entire generation - a superb book' Sunday Express . 7,000 copies sold, and picked as 'book of the year' by Roy Jenkins and Hugh Trevor-Roper

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Author:   John Jolliffe
Publisher:   The History Press Ltd
Imprint:   The History Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780750985741


ISBN 10:   0750985747
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   12 January 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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Depicts more elegantly and eloquently than a dozen lesser volumes the lives, standards, hopes and tragic ends of almost an entire generation . . . a superb book. --Sunday Express Witty, informed, acid and deliciously frank about his famous contemporaries. --The Times


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JOHN JOLLIFFE, now retired, was the editorial director of Constable for eight years, and was also the author or editor of five previous books on historical subjects, including The Diaries of Benjamin Haydon and The Chronicles of Froissart. He has been a regular reviewer for The Spectator and Salisbury Reviewer, and has also contributed to Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph and Independent.

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