America enters the war and contracts for all Budd output. Robbie takes Lanny to Connecticut to meet the Puritan Budd family and learn the arms business. The Germans agree to an armistice when they lose access to their sources of oil. Robbie takes Lanny back to Europe as regional wars erupt. On the ship, Professor Alston, an expert for U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, offers Lanny a job at the Paris Peace Conference. In Paris, Joannes Robin plans to sell war surplus; Robbie invests even though it is a "Jewish" business. The French continue the Blockade of Germany, which starves civilians and boosts the Bolshevik influence in Bavaria and Berlin. Rick is shot down and loses use of his leg. Rosemary writes that she still loves Lanny but must marry an English earl.