Titlebook: Rewriting the First World War; Lloyd George, Politi Andrew Suttie Book 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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,Russia: War and Revolution 1914–18,ns, the Middle East and Italy, and of course the great opportunities missed by the Western Allies in those regions. There is in the . also a consideration of various aspects of events on the Eastern Front and in Russia, and it is to aspects of these chapters that I now turn.

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Book 2005ed on the generals‘ incompetence, their obsession with the Western Front, and their refusal to consider alternatives to the costly trench warfare in France and Belgium. Yet as War Minister and Prime Minister Lloyd George presided over the bloody offensives of 1916-17, and had earlier taken a leading

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,Strategic Dilemmas: 1914–15,ial land forces, with well-known results. Allied forces were later deployed in Salonika at the end of 1915, but rather than launching a powerful attack on Austria as Lloyd George wanted, they were too weak in numbers and equipment to be anything but an irritant to Austria and Bulgaria until the last months of the war.

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,‘Pandemonium let Loose’: The Outbreak of War 1914,, and while he remained the most important ‘Radical’ member of the Cabinet, in the realm of foreign policy there was, at least from 1911, in reality little dividing him from his Liberal ‘Imperialist’ colleagues such as H.H. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey. Like them he was determined to maintain the str

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,Strategic Dilemmas: 1914–15,s. He first argues that the decision to deploy the BEF on the left wing of the French was wrong and instead that BEF would have been better placed to inflict a severe, even decisive blow against the German advance by concentrating in Antwerp and joining forces with the Belgians. He then describes hi

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,Munitions 1914–16,the chapters devoted to munitions remain (in contrast to other chapters of the . a valuable contribution to our historical understanding of a comparatively neglected topic.. War production was put on a sounder footing and rose dramatically from 1916. Lloyd George and his new ministry, he claims in t

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The Nivelle Offensive 1917,ve been unconsciously influenced by the fact that he himself was an enthusiastic supporter of General Nivelle’.1 There are few passages in the . in which this is more apparent than in that which deals with the Calais conference of February 1917 where, to Robertson’s horror, he attempted to subordina