London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1953. Reprint of the 1928 publication. Hardcover. lxix, 886 pages. Note on the Arrangement of Documents . Names of Writers of Minutes. Index of Persons. Subject Index. Name of previous owner present. This is Volume V of British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898-1914, edited by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley. George Peabody Gooch, OM, CH, FBA (21 October 1873 – 31 August 1968) was a British journalist, historian and Liberal Party politician. A follower of Lord Acton who was independently wealthy, he never held an academic position, but knew the work of historians of continental Europe. After the First World War Gooch became an influential historian of Europe of the period, and was critical of British policy. He was active in the Union of Democratic Control. For about ten years from the mid-1920s onwards he was involved, with Harold Temperley, in the publication of the official British diplomatic history. Gooch has been noted as a significant revisionist historian of the Europe of the early twentieth century, in particular in relation to the causes of the First World War. He has been described as one of the "early revisionists" More