The Versailles Treaty and Its Legacy: The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107008212)

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 book delivers a powerful lesson in treaty-making and rejects the supposition that treaties, once made, are unchangeable, whatever their faults.

Author: Norman A. Graebner,Edward M. Bennett
ISBN-10: 1107008212
ISBN-13: 9781107008212
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2011
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2012