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 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
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
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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
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)
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)
Watson, Alan – Churchill’s Legacy (Fulton & Zurich speeches)
Watson, Alexander - Enduring The Western Front
Wrigley - Lloyd George & trade unions (2 vols)
Ziegler - Lady Diana Cooper