The End of Order

by Charles L. Mee Jr.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525098100
• ISBN13: 9780525098102
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Highly Readable Introduction to the Topic

This book is highly readable and certainly not like many other books on the subject which tend to be a dull and technical recitation of the Versailles Treaty process which ended World War 1 in 1919 and sowed the seeds for World War 2. It brings the era and the place and the treaty process alive with the historic figures who shaped the peace and some who will later be important in world history. Ideal for someone who wants to get an overview of the end of the first Great War and the era. Shows how important events can proceed by happenstance. Has very good footnoting. Easy to read and enjoyable.

And you thought the Paris Peace conferenace wasn't fun...

An anecdotal account of the Paris Peace Conference. Enjoyable and informative but lacking a coherent narrative to tie everything together. This book does a good job of showing the breadth of changes that had occurred since the end of the war and the hopes with which people from all nations awaited the work of the delegates. I really enjoyed this book full of short snippets and quick accounts of many aspects of the conference. The anmimosities, the friendships, the never ending sense of confusion.