Historian in Peace and War: The Diaries of Harold Temperley

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.