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An Historian in Peace and War - The Diaries of Harold Temperley (Paperback)
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An Historian in Peace and War - The Diaries of Harold Temperley (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
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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 the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, he spent the remainder of
the war and its aftermath as a general staff officer in military
intelligence. Here he played a significant role in preparing
British strategy for the eventual peace conference and in
finalising several post-war boundaries in Eastern Europe. Later, in
the 1920s and 1930s, Temperley was to co-edit the British
diplomatic documents on the origins of the war; and the
vicissitudes of modern Great Power politics were to be his
principal preoccupation. Beginning in June 1916, the diary presents
a more or less daily record of Temperley's activities and
observations throughout the war and subsequent peace negotiations.
As a professional historian he appreciated the significance of
eyewitness accounts, and if Temperley was not at the very heart of
Allied decision-making during those years, he certainly had a
ringside seat. Trained to observe accurately, he recorded the
concerns and confusions of wartime, conscious always of the
historical significance of what he observed. As a result there are
few sources that match Temperley's diary, which presents a
fascinating and unique perspective upon the politics and diplomacy
of the First World War and its aftermath.
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