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Books

GUTTED

Churchill, Winston - His Father's Son (on Randolph)

Crick - Heseltine

Farrar-Hockley - Gough

Holmes - Little Field Marshal (Sir John French)

Howard - RAB

Jago - RAB

Jeffery - Henry Wilson

Jenkins - Asquith

Thorpe - Selwyn Lloyd

Koss - Asquith

Woodward - Robertson


READ Cover to Cover

Adams ATQ - Ulster Crisis

Adams RJQ - Arms and the Wizard (Lloyd George Munitions)

Adams RJQ - Conscription

Adams RJQ - Bonar Law (first read 1999)

Addison - Now The War Is Over

Afflerbach - On A Knife Edge (WW1 from German pov)

Badsey - British Cavalry

Barker - Fall of Lloyd George

Barnett - The Swordbearers (first read 1985, and again 2000)

Batten, Simon - Futile Exercises

Beckett - The Making of the Great War

Beckett - The Army and the Curragh Incident

Beckett - Johnny Gough VC

Beckett - The Verdict of History (French & Smith-Dorrien)

Bell - Churchill and Admiralty

Bell - Churchill and the Dardanelles

Bennett - Naval Battles of the First World War (first read 1983)

Bew - Churchill and Ireland

Bidwell & Graham - Coalitions, Politicians & Generals (planning of Third Ypres, Anvil and Europe 1944)

Blewett - The Peers, The People And The Parties (on 1910)

Boff - Winning and Losing on the Western Front (Third Army)

Bourachot - Joffre

Bouverie - Appeasing Hitler

O'Brien, Paul - A Question of Duty (the Curragh Incident)

Bromage, Mary - Churchill and Ireland

Campbell - Bevan (first read 1990)

Campbell - If Love Were All (Frances Stevenson)

Campbell - The Goat In The Wilderness (Lloyd George 1922-31, first read 1990)

Campbell (different John C) - Haldane

Carlyon, Les - The Great War (Australia's role on the Western Front)

Cassar - Asquith as War Leader

Cassar - Lloyd George At War

Cassar - Kitchener

Cassar - Kitchener's Army

Cassar - Kitchener And The Dardanelles A Reassessment

Cassar - French and the Dardanelles (1971)

Cassar - Reluctant Partner: French And The Dardanelles (new version)

Charmley - Lord Lloyd

Charmley - Duff Cooper

Clarke - Mr Churchill’s Profession (his writing career)

Coggan - Paper Promises

Cooper, Duff - Old Men Forget

Cowan - Holding Out (German Army in 1917)

Crosby, Travis - Lloyd George Statesman in Conflict

Dalio - Changing World Order

Dobbs, Michael - Six Months in 1945

Donnelly, Brent - Art of Currency Trading

Doughty – Pyrrhic Victory (French in WW1)

Dimbleby, Jonathan – Battle of the Atlantic,

Dimbleby, Jonathan – Destiny in the Desert

Dutton - The Politics Of Diplomacy (Salonika)

Dutton - Austen Chamberlain

El Erian, Mohammed - The Only Game In Town

Fanning, Ronan - Fatal Path (British policy towards Ireland 1910-25)

Fanning, Ronan - A Will To Power (biog of Eamon de Valera)

Farrar-Hockley - The Somme (first read 1984)

Ferguson - The Ascent of Money

Fergusson - The Curragh Incident

Ferriter - The Border (first read c 2019, reread 2024)

Ferriter - Judging Dev (De Valera)

Ferriter - A Nation And Not A Rabble

Fraser, Antonia - The King And the Catholics

Fraser, Peter - Lord Esher

French, David - British War Strategy (3 vols)

Gordon - Rules of the Game (Jutland)

Greenhalgh - Victory Through Coalition

Greenhalgh - Foch In Command

Grieves, Keith - Politics of Manpower

Grigg - Lloyd George Vols 1-3

Grotelueschen, Mark - The AEF Way of War

Hague, Ffion - The Pain And The Privilege (Lloyd George Women)

Ham - Passchendaele

Harris - Douglas Haig And The First World War

Hart - Mick (biog of Michael Collins)

Hazlehurst - Politicians At War (1914-15)

Heathorn – Kitchener and Haig Reputations

Herman - Churchill and Gandhi

Hermiston – All Behind You Winston (Politics of WW2)

Hitchens, Peter - The Phoney Victory

Hughes, Matthew – Middle East in WW1 (some good stuff on Archibald Murray)

Ireland - Churchill and Son (on Randolph)

Jackson, Alvin - Redmond & Carson

James, Lawrence - Churchill and Empire

Koss - Haldane, Scapegoat for Liberalism

Lambert, Andrew - Admirals

Lambert, Andrew - Seapower States

Lancaster, Colin - Fed Up

Lees-Milne - The Enigmatic Edwardian (Lord Esher)

Leslie - Cousin Randolph

Lewis, Terrance - Prisms of British Appeasement

Liddle - The Somme

Lloyd - Passchendaele

LoCicero - Two Sides of the Same Bad Penny (Gallipoli & Western Front)

Lyman & Dannatt - Victory to Defeat 1918-1940

Macdonald - First Day of the Somme

Mackay, Ruddock - Fisher of Kilverstone

McCrae, Meighan - Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War

McFarland - A Slashing Man of Action (Aylmer Hunter-Weston)

Middlebrook - First Day on the Somme (first read 1985)

K O Morgan - Consensus & Disunity (Lloyd George 1918-22 - first read 1990)

Murray, Bruce - People's Budget 1909/10

Olson, Lynn - Troublesome Young Men (on the anti-appeasers)

Pelling, Henry - A History of British Trade Unionism

Philpott - 1996 book on Flanders strategy

Powell, Geoffrey - Plumer, the Soldier's General

Prior & Wilson - Command & Control on the Western Front (Rawlinson)

Prior & Wilson - The Somme

Quinn & Turner - Boom and Bust, A Global History of Financial Bubbles

Ridley - Far From Suitable (Haig, Gough and Passchendaele)

Roberts - Elegy (the Somme)

Robbins - Sir Edward Grey

Roberts - The Holy Fox (read 1994 and bits in 2015)

Rose - The Literary Churchill

Roskill - Churchill and the Admirals

Ryan, AP - Mutiny At The Curragh

Sebag-Montefiore - The Somme

Senior - Richard Haking

Shah - Breakout Nations

Shakespeare - Six Minutes In May (Norway & Churchill becomes PM)

Sheldon - Fighting On The Somme

Simkins - Kitchener's Army

Skidelsky - Politicians And The Slump (Labour Gvt 1929-31 - first read 1994)

Smithers - The Man Who Disobeyed (Smith-Dorrien)

Spencer, John - Wilson’s War

Stafford - Oblivion or Glory (Churchill in 1921)

Steadman – Alternatives to Appeasement

Stewart, Graham - Burying Caesar (study of Churchill and Neville Chamberlain)

Stewart, Graham - Friendship & Betrayal (Anne & Sarah, B Franklin & W Franklin/J Galloway, Asquith & Haldane

Steel & Hart - Jutland

Strohn - The Battle Of the Somme

Suttie – Rewriting the Great War (Lloyd George Memoirs)

Thomas-Symonds - Bevan

Todman – Great War and Modern Memory

Toye - Lloyd George & Churchill

Toye - Churchill and Empire

Toye - Roar of the Lion (Churchill speeches)

Walsh, Maurice - Bitter Freedom (Ireland 1918-23)

Watson, Alan – Churchill’s Legacy (Fulton & Zurich speeches)

Watson, Alexander - Enduring The Western Front

Watt, Donald Cameron - How War Came (1938-39)

Wiest - Passchendaele and the Royal Navy

Willer, Chandram & Lam - Fixed Income and FX Emerging Markets

Williams - Macmillan

Wilson - The Myriad Faces Of War

Wilson - The Downfall of the Liberal Party 1910-31

Woodham-Smith, Cecil - The Great Hunger (on the Irish Famine)

Woodward - Lloyd George and the Generals

Woodward - Trial By Friendship (UK-US relations in WW1)

Wrigley - Lloyd George & trade unions (2 vols)

Ziegler - Lady Diana Cooper