The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935

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By 1914 the Liberal Party had been governing Britain ever since its stunning general election victory of 1906. Four years later the Party was out of office, and so enfeebled it would never again form a government. What prompted the Liberal decline in the years of The Great War, and why did this decline then accelerate Trevor Wilsons classic study analyses the strains exerted on Liberal principles by war, and the leadership crisis induced in 1916 by Lloyd Georges ousting of Asquith. A.J.P. Taylor

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Trevor Wilson, Emeritus Professor of the University of Adelaide, is one of the worlds leading military historians concentrating in particular on the First World War. With Robin Prior as co-author he has written four books on that subject including The Somme and Passchandaele. Faber Finds are reissuing his magnum opus, The Myriad Faces of War, as well as The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935.