The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History

The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise HistoryDescription by Michael S. Neiberg Hardcover Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the time, observers read the treaty through competing lenses: a desire for

as the Germans called them

where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the rest of the family

For the Western Allies

including the mutinous state of the French army

The officer is the only one who knows their orders and has not told anyone else where they are located

Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness

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000 black soldiers to be sent to France as a labor force

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performed music and created motion pictures attesting to the existence of the guardian angels

these weren’t abstract questions