| Notes: First edition. Tears and chips to jacket, jacket spine stained. Ink stamp on copyright page. 1930 Hard Cover. xiii, 421 pp. In a series of studies, based upon prolonged research in the State papers and other sources, Sir Richard Lodge has endeavoured to trace the most important threads of diplomacy which influenced the course of the war and led to its unsatisfactory close. Incidentally the narrative throws light upon the discords of the British Cabinet, upon the difficulties caused by entrusting the conduct of foreign affairs to two Secretaries of State, and upon the character and aims of prominent English politicians, notably Carteret, Chesterfield, the Duke of Newcastle, and the fourth Earl of Sandwich. |