• Part 1 Plans, operations, and administration: the beginning of British preparations for peace; the political intelligence department; the struggle for control. Part 2 The evolution of diplomatic strategy: the European settlement; the world outside Europe; non-territorial questions. Part 3 Implementation: the Paris Peace Conference.

`The book is a rewarding and dense study of the subject, particularly good for its analysis of minor novelists, both of the early part of the century, and its end.^'Irish Independent

• Part 1 Plans, operations, and administration: the beginning of British preparations for peace; the political intelligence department; the struggle for control. Part 2 The evolution of diplomatic strategy: the European settlement; the world outside Europe; non-territorial questions. Part 3 Implementation: the Paris Peace Conference.

`The book is a rewarding and dense study of the subject, particularly good for its analysis of minor novelists, both of the early part of the century, and its end.^'Irish Independent

• Part 1 Plans, operations, and administration: the beginning of British preparations for peace; the political intelligence department; the struggle for control. Part 2 The evolution of diplomatic strategy: the European settlement; the world outside Europe; non-territorial questions. Part 3 Implementation: the Paris Peace Conference.

`The book is a rewarding and dense study of the subject, particularly good for its analysis of minor novelists, both of the early part of the century, and its end.^'Irish Independent