[nkycincinnatikid]

No, please excuse me , I bought Fronkinds “The Peace To End All Peace” about twenty years ago. The title suggested something the book was not. I have tried repeatedy to finish that book over the decades as I just never throw anything away, and there it sits in the library. Frompkin was one of Hubert H Humprey;s Intellectuals, but I bought into the title that is all. I am glad you have read his latest and will always think of you when I see that other book. Keep reading .

[BroJoeK]

"I bought Fronkinds “The Peace To End All Peace” about twenty years ago"

I have read and have that book here, along with:

Margaret MacMillan's c2001 "Paris 1919 -- Six Months that Changed the World"

and Christopher Catherwood's c2004 "Churchill's Folly -- How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq"

Here's the important point: all of these books are highly critical of US, British and French diplomacy at the end of the First World War -- and with some justification.

However, and it's a big however: the REAL reason, the core reason that Versailles did not produce a more peaceful Germany was NOT because of it's supposedly "harsh terms."
The real reasons were because Germans in their hearts and souls did NOT believe that:

• Germany had started the Great War. The truth is, Germany DID start the war, but no German believed it. and
• Germany had LOST the war. The truth is, Germany had been utterly defeated, but again, no German believed it.

For an utterly DEFEATED nation, the Versailles treaty was more than fair and just -- and this is proved beyond any possibility of doubt by the very peace terms GERMANY imposed on nations it had defeated, such as Belgium and Russia.

But Germans did not think they had started the war, did not think they had been defeated, and they were mad as h*ll about it. What it all proves is the unlimited power of a really Big Lie.