Originally published in 1957, the original blurb reads: ‘From
these studies of the secret diplomacy surrounding the entry of
Turkey and Italy into the First World War, emerges a picture of the
complex machinery behind the obvious wheels of international
politics. The activities of statesmen and diplomats are related to
the ramifications of big business, banks, oil and armament
companies. The story of each move and counter-move, told mostly in
the actors’ own words and with many quotations from actual
memoranda and dispatches, is based on sources which are quite new.
The Russian collections of confidential correspondence, which
include foreign diplomatic dispatches intercepted and deciphered in
Russia, and the latest Documenti Diplomatici Italiani are
practically unknown to the British public. This material has been
integrated with that taken from all the available collections of
British, French, German, Austro-Hungarian and American diplomatic
documents, official publications, contemporary periodicals and
economic and financial data, and such mines of information as the
diaries, recollections and private letters of those involved. This
unusual combination of source material allows some general
conclusions to be drawn as to the laws and logic of the diplomacy
of power politics. The most striking fact, perhaps, is the
diplomatic war among allies. The book brings out the deep-seated
conflicts of interests in the German-Austro-Hungarian coalition,
and those dividing Britain, France, Russia and Italy in the Near
East, the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Another point of special
interest is the inter-group and party struggle inside the countries
for or against war; and another is the genesis of some of the
fateful Secret Treaties which bedevilled the peace settlements of
1919-20.’ Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical
context.
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