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  title info:
    title: Plotting for peace
    sub title: American peacemakers, British codebreakers, and Britain at war, 1914-1917
  name:
    name part: Larsen, Daniel
    name part: 1985-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the United States, rival factions in Asquith's government battled over whether or not to seek a negotiated end to the First World War. In this riveting new account, Daniel Larsen tells the full story for the first time of how Asquith and his supporters secretly sought to end the war. He shows how they supported President Woodrow Wilson's efforts to convene a peace conference and how British intelligence, clandestinely breaking American codes aimed to sabotage these peace efforts and aided Asquith's rivals. With Britain reading and decrypting all US diplomatic telegrams between Europe and Washington, these decrypts were used in a battle between the Treasury, which was terrified of looming financial catastrophe, and Lloyd George and the generals. This book's findings transform our understanding of British strategy and international diplomacy during the war.
  table of contents: The First Year Of War (August 1914-August 1915) -- Strategy (August-December 1915) -- Negotiations (January-March 1916) -- Deliberations (March-May 1916) -- The Gamble (June-August 1916) -- The Knock-out Blow (September-October 1916) -- The Fall Of Asquith (October-December 1916) -- Peace Moves (December 1916-January 1917) -- The Zimmermann Telegram And Wilson's Move To War -- (February-April 1917).
  note: Daniel Larsen, University of Cambridge.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Peace
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Diplomatic history
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1913-1921
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1910-1936
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Economic aspects
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Cryptography
  classification: D619 .L39 2021
  classification: 940.3/120941
  identifier: 9781108486682
  identifier: 1108486681
  identifier: 9781108708197
  identifier: 1108708196
  identifier: 9781108761833
  identifier: 9781108788656
  identifier: 2020037949
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200903
    record change date: 20211018101354.0
    record identifier: in00004375268