Lloyd George's memoirs illustrate how a later account can reshape a commander's reputation. The interpretation here is that publication after the commander's death allowed Lloyd George to shift blame onto him. Some of that criticism is still judged to have merit. The comparison cautions against accepting memoir-driven accounts of Churchill's construction pause without considering earlier evidence.
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Memoirs can shift blame after another participant's death
The Lloyd George analogy distinguishes criticism with some merit from a later memoir's attempt to shift blame.