Originally published in 1985 The Decision to Disarm Germany offers a fresh approach to Britain’s First World War and Paris Peace Conference policy on the question of German military disarmament. It offers interpretations based on extensive research into unpublished records and private papers and provides important new conclusions about British policy. The book shows the interaction of domestic concerns and strategic considerations in the wartime development of British thinking on the issue of post-war German disarmament and in the post-Armistice formulation and implementation of Britain’s German disarmament policy. It establishes the crucial interrelationship in British thinking and policy between German disarmament and general disarmament. It also shows the interwar consequences of wartime attitudes and peace conference policy.

Maggie Charles taught EAP at Oxford University for many years; she currently works on the Cara EAP programme for Syrian refugee academics. Her research is on the analysis of academic discourse and corpus use in EAP writing pedagogy. She co-wrote the textbook Introducing English for Academic Purposes (Routledge, 2015).

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (PhD in Applied Linguistics, Edinburgh) is Reader in Translation Studies at the University of Surrey. Her research focuses on applied uses of corpora in writing, translation and lexicography. Her main projects include the ColloCaid writing assistant, the COMPARA parallel Portuguese-English corpus, and the bilingual Oxford Portuguese Dictionary.