A Diplomatic History of the First World War

Historical accounts of the First World War have generally reflected the traditional opinion that when diplomats fail they disappear from the stage (perhaps into military uniform), and soldiers take over. But Professor Zeman here traces the broad movements of both strategy and diplomacy and shows how those two means of winning the war – the military and the political – fitted together during the war years. Taking the reader to the nine capitals of the embattled nations, the author uses the technique of on-the-spot reportage to describe that earlier age when diplomats communicated in the language of aristocrats even though they were at The Gentlemen Negotiators.