Reviews: Lloyd George: War Leader: Exposing the real Lloyd George

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: November 3, 2002| Author: GERARD DeGROOT | Copyright information

LLOYD GEORGE: WAR LEADER

John Grigg

Allen Lane, GBP 25

ANY serious examination of the past quickly reveals that 'great' men had feet of clay. Abraham Lincoln did not want to free the slaves; Martin Luther King was a womaniser; and Winston Churchill a drunk. Heroes reside only in comic books.

Lloyd George nevertheless saw himself in heroic terms. He got a headstart on history by leaving a six-volume set of war memoirs which managed to bathe his every act in glowi...

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