whilst still in harness. A. J. P. Taylor claimed "Crowe always thought he knew better than his political superiors". Zara Steiner and Keith Nelson have described Crowe as "the leading German expert in the pre-war Foreign Office... He was a master of detail but also interested in the broader complex of international and military relations... Crowe was the arch anti-appeaser. With ruthless logic and in a forthright manner, he opposed every effort to come to terms with Berlin... A prodigious worker, Crowe's knowledge and skill earned him a very special place in the Foreign Office hierarchy and his comments were read with attention if not always with approval". In popular culture In the 2014 BBC mini-series 37 Days, Crowe is portrayed by actor Nicholas Farrell. Crowe is depicted as a competent and shrewd administrator but one who is exasperated and confused by the Foreign Secretary's (Sir Edward Grey; portrayed by Ian McDiarmid) superior diplomatic prowess. The narrator of the series, a Second Division Clerk in the Foreign Office (portrayed by actor James McArdle), also describes Crowe as: "German born, educated in Berlin, but...more British than any one of us". Notes References Sibyl Crowe and Edward Corp, Our Ablest Public Servant: Sir Eyre Crowe GCB, GCMG, KCB, KCMG, 1864-1925 (Devon: Merlin, 1993). F.H. Hinsley (ed.), British Foreign Policy Under Sir Edward Grey (Cambridge, 1977). Zara S. Steiner, The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy 1898-1914 (Cambridge, 1969). Zara S. Steiner and Keith Nelson, Britain and the Origins of the First World War. Second Edition (Macmillan, 2003). Further reading Corp, Edward. "Sir Eyre Crowe and the Administration of the Foreign Office, 1906-1914" The Historical Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 443–454. Corp, Edward. "The problem of promotion in the career of Sir Eyre Crowe, 1905–1920", Australian Journal of Politics and History, 28 (1982), pp. 236–49. Corp, Edward. "Sir Eyre Crowe and Georges Clemenceau at the Paris peace conference, 1919–1920", Diplomacy and Statecraft, 8 (1997), pp. 10–19. Cosgrove, Richard A. "The Career of Sir Eyre Crowe: A Reassessment", Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter, 1972), pp. 193–205. Crowe, Sibyl Eyre. "Sir Eyre Crowe and the Locarno Pact", The English Historical Review, Vol. 87, No. 342 (Jan., 1972), pp. 49–74. Dunn, J.S. The Crowe Memorandum: Sir Eyre Crowe and Foreign Office Perceptions of Germany, 1918-1925 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). excerpt Otte, Thomas. "Eyre Crowe and British