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出版Pickle Partners Publishing, 2018-12-01
主題History / Wars & Conflicts / World War IHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / GermanyBiography & Autobiography / Military
ISBN178912543X9781789125436
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ooqbDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, KG, PC, DL, FZS (1862-1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey prior to his elevation to the peerage he was the 3rd Baronet Grey of Fallodon, was a British Liberal statesman and the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War. An adherent of the “New Liberalism”, he served as foreign secretary from 1905-1916, the longest continuous tenure of any person in that office. He is probably best remembered for his “the lamps are going out” remark on 3 August 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War. He signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement on 16 May 1916 and ennobled that same year, he was Ambassador to the United States between 1919-1920 and Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords between 1923-1924.

In his own words, renowned British historian George Macaulay Trevelyan’s object of this volume was “to present the man, his character as moulded by circumstance, and his life private and public.” Sir Edward Grey had particularly expressed the desire that his private life, including the twenty years of his first marriage, ought to be an integral part of any biography of him that was written with the help of his family and trust friends, and Trevelyan has successfully achieved this with this biography.

An unmissable addition to any World War I library.