1st Edition
An Historian in Peace and War The Diaries of Harold Temperley
Edited By T.G. Otte
Copyright 2014
606 Pages
by
Routledge
606 Pages
by
Routledge
606 Pages
by
Routledge
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The First World War and subsequent peace settlement shaped the course of the twentieth century, and the profound significance of these events were not lost on Harold Temperley, whose diaries are presented here. An established scholar, and later one of Britain’s foremost modern and diplomatic historians, Temperley enlisted in the army at the outbreak of the war in August 1914. Invalided home from... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction: an historian in peace and war; The diaries, 1916-1939; Index.
Biography
T.G. Otte, MA, PhD, is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia. He specializes in diplomatic history and the history of warfare. He is the author or editor of 15 books. Among his latest publications are The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865-1914 (2011) and July 1914: Europe’s Descent into World War (2014).
’The volume is a welcome addition to Ashgate’s Studies in First World War History series and the publishers, along with the editor, deserve praise for producing this substantial collection from the diaries, with such careful attention to detail. As well as a 35-page introductory essay, there are detailed biographical entries on characters mentioned in the text...a work that will serve to illuminate Britain’s planning for peace after the ’war to end all wars’. The diaries will be consulted with profit by those historians interested in British decision-making during the First World War and Paris Peace Conference, especially with regard to East-Central Europe.’ Hague Journal of Diplomacy
