An Historian in Peace and War: The Diaries of Harold Temperley
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This volume provides the fully edited and annotated diaries of the scholar, soldier and diplomat Harold Temperley (1879-1939), covering his travels in the Balkans, his work for British military intelligence during the First World War, and his role in the Versailles peace conference. As a trained historian, he was aware of the importance of recording events as they unfolded, and regarded his diary as a means of preserving a non-official record. As such, this edition of Temperley's diaries offers scholars a direct and hitherto neglected perspective on some of the most important events that shaped twentieth-century Europe.…mehr

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This volume provides the fully edited and annotated diaries of the scholar, soldier and diplomat Harold Temperley (1879-1939), covering his travels in the Balkans, his work for British military intelligence during the First World War, and his role in the Versailles peace conference. As a trained historian, he was aware of the importance of recording events as they unfolded, and regarded his diary as a means of preserving a non-official record. As such, this edition of Temperley's diaries offers scholars a direct and hitherto neglected perspective on some of the most important events that shaped twentieth-century Europe.
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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).