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Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness
Contemporary Review, Spring, 2008
Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness. Richard Toye. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]25.00. viii + 504 pages. ISBN 978-1-4050-4896-4. To many contemporaries 'L-G' and Churchill were, at least in their earlier years, regarded as 'bounders' yet each emerged from the fringe of party politics as great war leaders.
Lloyd-George's trip up the greasy pole was arguably easier than Churchill's who constantly slipped back down before 1940. This is not the first book in recent years to investigate the friendship and rivalry between these two men but it is the most carefully researched and informed. However some of Mr Toye's judgements are rather harsh, to say the least: to write that 'each was a non-Christian' is damning without any evidence. Who sees fully into another man's soul? Where the book excels is in showing how the friendship and rivalry mirrored the profound social and political changes of the twentieth century. Mr Toye compares their roles as war leaders, examines why LG's fame has almost disappeared whilst Churchill's remains, and makes many interesting points along the way. (T.B.)
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