An American journalist-historian surveys the continent in the first years after the Great War: the Armistice, the Paris Peace Conference, the failures of Versailles, the treaties of St.-Germain and Trianon, the Balkan settlement, Soviet Russia, the new Baltic republics and the resurrection of Poland. Gibbons writes with open doubt that the new frontiers will hold.
Contemporary history written before anyone knew how the interwar story would end, which makes its warnings the more striking. Download the free EPUB.