| A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today Contributor(s): Andelman, David A. (Author), Evans, Sir Harold (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1630269042 ISBN-13: 9781630269043 Publisher: Trade Paper Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War I - Political Science | Peace - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 940.314 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.64 lbs) 388 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 1920's |
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| Publisher Description: For more than half a century, it has been widely recognized that the Treaty of Versailles created the circumstances that led inevitably to World War II. Less acknowledged and understood is the treaty's profound impact on many other parts of the world--an impact that echoes to this day in the Middle East, the Far East, the Balkans, and, yes, in Iraq. In A Shattered Peace, veteran foreign correspondent David A. Andelman takes a fresh new look at the Treaty of Versailles as the point of origin for many of today's most critical international issues. In this revealing history, Andelman turns the spotlight on the many errors committed by the peacemakers that led to crises and bloodshed from Kosovo to Iraq, wars from Israel to Vietnam. Focusing on the small nations and minor players at the negotiations, including figures such as Ho Chi Minh and Charles de Gaulle who would later become boldfaced names, he traces the outcome of the deliberations through the history of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Andelman also paints a vivid picture of the glittering and often chaotic social whirl that accompanied the negotiations. Elsa Maxwell threw her first party; young Franklin Delano Roosevelt flirted with Parisian widows to the humiliation of his wife, Eleanor; princesses and young gentlemen in formal attire danced gaily to the hot new sound of American jazz--all this as prime ministers Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George ogled huge maps, dividing up territories and cementing their nations' positions as leading world powers for decades to come. Complete with a new foreword by Sir Harold Evans, a new introduction from the author, and a never-before-published chapter on establishing a global economy, as well as insightful quotations from the diaries and correspondence of participants and previously unpublished photographs of the proceedings and their surroundings, A Shattered Peace will change the way you think about twentieth-century history, its influence on current events, and where we should go from here. |
Contributor Bio(s): Andelman, David A.: - DAVID A. ANDELMAN, Executive Editor of Forbes.com, has reported from more than fifty countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and CBS News. He has also served as Washington correspondent for CNBC, senior editor of Bloomberg News, and as business editor of the New York Daily News, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in New York City and Canadensis, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Pamela Title.Evans, Sir Harold: - SIR HAROLD EVANS, currently Editor-at-Large at Reuters, edited The Sunday Times of London (1967-1981) and The Times (1981-1982). An MA of Durham University in the United Kingdom, he was Harkness Fellow at the universities of Stanford and Chicago, where he wrote a thesis on the Suez crisis of 1956-7. He is a Fellow of University College, Durham. His books include The American Century and My Paper Chase. |