Fatal Fortnight: Arthur Ponsonby and the Fight for British Neutrality 1914
| By: | Marlor; Duncan |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9781473822863 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781473838833 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Numerous books have been published about the First World War but few have focused on the machinations in the British parliament and the role it played in the decision to go to war. Britain, after all, could not have entered the conflict without clear approval from MPs. One hundred years on, Fatal Fortnight re-examines the arguments which Parliament heard against British war entry and reflects on how the world might have been had the decision gone a different way. At the centre of the stormy debate was the enigmatic Arthur Ponsonby. Born into the heart of the aristocracy, the son of Queen Victoria's Private Secretary and pageboy to the Queen, Ponsonby was a champion of social reform and of democratic foreign policy. His grandfather fought at Waterloo and his brother was a Brigadier who served on the Western Front