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Military leader in Downing Street John Grigg's multi-volume biography of Lloyd George represents robust, argumentative history- writing at its best, says Andrew Roberts
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Lloyd George:
War Leader
by John Grigg
Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, pounds 25, 669 pp
pounds 23 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
JOHN GRIGG, who died earlier this year, was one of Britain's
foremost historians, and in his four-volume life of Lloyd George he
has left a formidable monument to his scholarship. This volume takes
the Prime Minister from his entry to Number 10 in December 1916 to
the armistice on November 11, 1918. It therefore covers less than two
years, but what full and furious years they were as Lloyd George
grasps control of a military machine that seemed to be going nowhere ...
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Benjamin tells forum how he used McGraw's 'looking for ugly' speech: Justice also claims his opponents spread talk that his last name was 'not Christian sounding'
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Mr. Benjamin goes to Washington?
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Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human beings and Angels.(Review)
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Benjamin should not be victim of political recusal campaign
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Benjamin runs sleazy ads because he has no record
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Benjamin West Opens Overseas Offices to Meet Growing International Expansion.
PR Newswire
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