Major general a c temperley (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean but has toning and some foxing/spotting. DJ with some edge wear, toning and creasing. Owner pencil signature to prelim page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. A candid insider account of the diplomatic culture that failed to prevent the crises of 1914 and the renewed disasters of the 1930s. Major-General Arthur Cecil Temperley held senior positions in the War Office before retiring from the military and becoming military correspondent for the Daily Telegraph in 1935. The book blends political analysis with sharply etched portraits of the individuals, including ambassadors, generals, intermediaries, and unofficial envoys, who operated behind the formal machinery of statecraft. Temperley argues that modern European history has been shaped as much by private conversations, misunderstandings, and rumour as by treaties or public statements, and that the interwar collapse of old-world diplomacy left the continent dangerously exposed to manipulation and miscalculation. With foreword by Anthony Eden. BOOK: Original teal cloth boards square and straight; page edges a little toned and spotted; some very sparse foxing to end-matter, offsetting to endpapers, neat gift inscription to ffep. DJ: Unclipped jacket worn to extremities; spine ends and corners reinforced with black paper strips, verso. Presents well overall.…