Douglas J. Newton

Douglas Newton is a retired academic. He has held teaching positions at Macquarie University, Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand, and was an Associate Professor in European History at the University of Western Sydney 1991–2008. He is the author of British Labour, European Socialism and the Struggle for Peace, 1889–1914 (OUP, 1985), and British Policy and the Weimar Republic, 1918–1919 (OUP, 1997). His two most recent books are Hell-bent: Australia’s Leap into the Great War (Melbourne: Scribe, 2014) and The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain’s Rush to War, 1914 (London: Verso, 2014).