The Treaty of Versailles
Subtitle: 75 years after
By: edited by Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, Elisabeth Glaser.
Contributors: Boemeke, Manfred F.; Feldman, Gerald D.; Glaser-Schmidt, Elisabeth.
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 674
Subjects: Treaty of Versailles (1919); World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence
Description: This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919, scrutinizing the motives, actions, and constraints that informed decision making by the American, British, and French politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the peace settlement.

It also addresses German reactions to the draft treaty and the final agreement, as well as Germany's role in the immediate postwar period. The findings call attention to diverging peace aims within the American and Allied camps and underscore the degree to which the negotiators themselves considered the Versailles Treaty a work in progress. A detailed examination of the proceedings from the point of view of the main protagonists forms the core of the investigation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and  index.
Brings together the proceedings of an international conference on the Treaty of Versailles.