THE DECLINE & FALL OF LLOYD GEORGE (320 pp.)Lord BeaverbrookDuell, Sloan & Pearce ($4.95).
There are few historians who can say: "I was there." One who canand frequently doesis Max Beaverbrook, the Canadian-born press lord and sometime Cabinet Minister who has been passionately involved in the "Great Game" of British politics for half a century. In the third of his authoritative, astringent histories of the World War 1 era and its aftermath (the others: Politicians and the War, Men and Power), Lord Beaverbrook is himself a central figure in the narrative. Beaverbrook was a member of Lloyd George's wartime cabinet (as minister...