On this day in 1919, in the wake of World War I, the leaders of four victorious Allied powers — the United States, France, Great Britain and Italy — met in Versailles, on the outskirts of Paris, to ...
One hundred years ago Friday, the representatives of 27 nations gathered in the French foreign ministry to open the Paris Peace Conference. The date — January 18 — was pointedly chosen by French ...
The failures of the peacemakers of 1919 have long been blamed for the breakdown of international order in subsequent decades. In this engaging account of the Paris peace conference, Andelman argues ...
On June 28, 1919, World War I came to a formal close with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual conflict had ended seven months earlier, when a truce was called on November 11, 1918, a ...
The Allied peacemakers at Versailles—Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, and Woodrow Wilson—have never recovered from history’s judgment that in ending one world war, they sowed the seeds of the ...
The Treaty of Versailles was signed 90 years ago this weekend. Can the details of the settlement still have any relevance for us? The Signing of the Peace Treaty in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28 ...
Editor’s note: David Andelman is the author of A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today. He recently discussed his book with Nick Schulz. Q. It is your sense that 1919 and the ...
The real roots of many major recent and current political events - the convulsions surrounding Iran's Islamic regime, the bloody troubles in neighbouring Iraq, the ethnic cleansing and mass murders in ...
The two world wars of the 20th century started in Europe. The commemoration of the fallen is marked each year on 11 November - the date of the armistice at the end of the "great war" of 1914-18, in ...
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