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).

• Contents: Preface; Introduction: an historian in peace and war; The diaries, 1916-1939; Index.

’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

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).

• Contents: Preface; Introduction: an historian in peace and war; The diaries, 1916-1939; Index.

’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

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).

• Contents: Preface; Introduction: an historian in peace and war; The diaries, 1916-1939; Index.

’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