The Versailles Treaty and Its Legacy: The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision

by Norman A. Graebner and Edward M. Bennett

Book Overview

This study, a realist interpretation of the long diplomatic record that produced the coming of World War II in 1939, is a critique of the Paris Peace Conference and reflects the judgment shared by many who left the Conference in 1919 in disgust amid predictions of future war. The critique is a rejection of the idea of collective security, which Woodrow Wilson and many others believed was a panacea, but which was also condemned as early as 1915. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107647487
• ISBN13: 9781107647480
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"