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Including a wide range of scholarship, this monograph focuses on the theme of communication during the First World War, analysing aspects such as the communication of war aims, objectives and war call-up, the experiences of war while also focusing on the knowledge produced around war.

This volume examines colonial encounters during the First World War. Through case studies from across the globe, the twelve chapters explore the spaces and processes of encounter to explore how the conjoined realities of war, race and empire were experienced, recorded and instrumentalized.

The collection offers updates to existing scholarship while bringing new departures and challenges to the current interpretive frameworks of veteran experiences in post-war Britain and Ireland.

The colonial contribution to Britain's First World War effort came from places like Rhodesia, Tonga, the Falkland Islands, Ceylon and Kuwait as much as it did the larger territories. It is the social and cultural reactions within these distant, often overlooked, societies now thrust into the mainstream of modern industrial conflict, which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Jamaica, and around the rest of the British imperial world, many complexities and interlocking themes are addressed.

The fiftteen chapters in this volume cover a broad range of perspectives on the First World War in the Middle East. All of the chapter authors look at their specific topics through a global lens.

This book offers the most detailed operational analysis of British tank use during the First World War ever undertaken. Its conclusions - based on a wealth of primary sources - provides a fascinating insight into how the British Army conducted operations on the Western Front, and how such an apparently conservative institution respond to technological innovation.

The First World War and subsequent peace settlement shaped the course of the twentieth century, and the profound significance of these events were not lost on Harold Temperley, whose diaries are presented here. An established scholar, and later one of BritainΓÇÖs foremost modern and diplomatic historians, Temperley enlisted in the army at the outbreak of the war in August 1914. Invalided home from the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, he spent the remainder of the war and its aftermath as a general staff officer in military intelligence. Here he played a significant role in preparing British strategy for the eventual peace conference and in finalising several post-war boundaries in Eastern Europe. Later, in the 1920s and 1930s, Temperley was to co-edit the British diplomatic documents on the origins of the war; and the vicissitudes of modern Great Power politics were to be his principal preoccupation. Beginning in June 1916, the diary presents a more or less daily record of TemperleyΓÇÖs activities and observations throughout the war and subsequent peace negotiations. As a professional historian he appreciated the significance of eyewitness accounts, and if Temperley was not at the very heart of Allied decision-making during those years, he certainly had a ringside seat. Trained to observe accurately, he recorded the concerns and confusions of wartime, conscious always of the historical significance of what he observed. As a result there are few sources that match TemperleyΓÇÖs diary, which presents a fascinating and unique perspective upon the politics and diplomacy of the First World War and its aftermath.

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.