Table of Contents

Policies old and new; thin ice; second love; frustrated campaigner; first involvement with Ireland; this approach to war; changed utterly; coming to grips with the War; "more true insight and courage than anyone else"; new government, new job; "the heaviest burden"; tormented government; Ireland again; responsibility without power; private and personal; the Howard interview; the fall of Asquith; new model.

About the Author

The first three volumes of John Grigg's life of Lloyd George - Young Lloyd George, The People's Champion and From Peace to War (available in Penguin paperback) - have established him as one of the greatest political biographers of the century. Among his other books are Nancy Astor and 1943: The Victory that Never Was (available in Penguin paperback). Volume Four of his life of Lloyd George, Lloyd George: War Leader: 1916 - 1918 is published in October 2002.