Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914-1917
暫譯: 和平的繪圖:美國和平使者、英國破譯者與英國在戰爭中的角色,1914-1917
Larsen, Daniel
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With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the US, 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.
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隨著英國在1916年底面臨經濟危機的前景,並日益依賴美國,阿斯奎斯(Asquith)政府內的對立派系在是否尋求談判結束第一次世界大戰上展開激烈鬥爭。在這本引人入勝的新書中,丹尼爾·拉爾森(Daniel Larsen)首次完整講述了阿斯奎斯及其支持者如何秘密尋求結束戰爭的故事。他展示了他們如何支持美國總統伍德羅·威爾遜(Woodrow Wilson)召開和平會議的努力,以及英國情報機構如何秘密破解美國的密碼,旨在破壞這些和平努力並協助阿斯奎斯的對手。英國在解讀和破解所有美國在歐洲與華盛頓之間的外交電報時,這些解密結果被用於財政部與勞伊德·喬治(Lloyd George)及將軍們之間的鬥爭,財政部對即將來臨的金融災難感到恐懼。本書的發現改變了我們對英國在戰爭期間的戰略和國際外交的理解。