Searching for Security in a New Europe

<p>Drawing on an array of archival material this study sheds light on Sir George Russell Clerk an important yet forgotten figure in British and European diplomatic history.</p><p>During the First World War Clerk was a senior Foreign Office official strongly sympathetic to the cause of the 'oppressed nationalities' of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This biographical study focuses on the most significant part of Clerk’s career his role as a nation-builder in post-war Europe until his eventual downfall at the hands of Antony Eden and retirement in 1937. This is an excellent account of the thoughts and deeds of a remarkable man in British History.</p>