Matthew Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Military and International History at the University of Salford. Dr Hughes's recent publications include Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East (London: Frank Cass, 1999), Does Peace Lead to War? Peace Settlements and Conflict in the Modern Age (Stroud: Sutton, 2002) and Allenby in Palestine: the Middle East Correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, June 1917-October 1919 (London: Army Records Society 2004).Gaynor Johnson is Senior Lecturer in History at Bolton Institute. Dr Johnson is a diplomatic and international historian of the twentieth century whose recent publications include: The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920-1926 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and the editor of Locarno Revisted: European Diplomacy 1920-1929 (London: Frank Cass, 2004), Our Man in Berlin: The Diary of Sir Eric Phipps, 1933-1937 (London: Brasseys, 2004) and The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (London: Frank Cass, 2004).