Editing H. H. Asquith (section)

===End of the war===
{{main|Armistice of 11 November 1918}}

Asquith was left politically discredited by the Maurice Debate and by the clear turn of the war in the Allies' favour from the summer of 1918. He devoted far more effort to his [[Romanes Lecture#1910s|Romanes Lecture]] "Some Aspects of the Victorian Age" at Oxford in June 1918 than to any political speech. However, [[Lady Ottoline Morrell]] thought it "a dull address".{{sfn|Koss|pp=228–230}} A letter of July 1918 describes a typical couple of days. "Nothing much is happening here. I dined with the usual crowd at Mrs. Astor's last night. The Duke of Connaught lunches here on Friday: don't you wish you were coming!"{{sfn|Asquith 1933|pp=67–68}}

The beginning of the end of the war began where it had begun, with the last German offensive on the Western Front, the [[Second Battle of the Marne]].{{sfn|Liddell Hart|p=531}} "The tide of German success was stemmed and the ebb began under pressure of the great Allied counter-stroke."{{sfn|Liddell Hart|p=531}} In response to the [[Allies of World War I|Allied]] offensives, "the governments of the Central Powers were everywhere in collapse".{{sfn|Adams|p=273}}