Douglas Newton was born in Sydney in 1952 and is a retired academic, having taught European history at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1986–90, and at the Un...view moreDouglas Newton was born in Sydney in 1952 and is a retired academic, having taught European history at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1986–90, and at the University of Western Sydney for the following eighteen years. His special interests are peace and war in the period 1890–1919. He has published academic studies of the peace movement before 1914, the peacemaking of 1918–1919, and Germany in the period of Weimar and Nazism, and is currently preparing a history of the struggle for a negotiated peace during the Great War. He lives in Sydney.view less