An Historian in Peace and War

Download or read book An Historian in Peace and War written by Dr T G Otte and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.