The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking After the First World War, 1919-1923

The Making of the Twentieth Century

by Alan Sharp

This text has established itself as one of the most highly regarded studies on the subject. Revised and expanded, this second edition incorporates the latest research and includes more discussion of the roles of the League of Nations after the conference, and of the post-war conflicts between Poland and the USSR, and between the USSR and Turkey.

Genres: History, World War I

304 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 1991

About the author

Alan Sharp is Professor of International Studies and Provost of the Coleraine campus at the University of Ulster.

Reviews

[Legens]

Engagingly written account of the Versailles negotiations which stresses the immense task the peacemakers faced in reconciling their various ideological and pragmatic goals.

[Альберто Лорэдо]

Very good work on telling the nitty-gritty details on what happened after the Great War in the different venues where negotiations where conducted. My takes are as follows:

1. F*ck Wilson
2. Too many things to cover by very little people. It shows clearly it was a monumental task that wasn't properly covered.
3. Foch's visions of the future: "this is not a peace but a 20-years armistice"

[Stuart Miller]

A detailed account of the discussions that resulted in the imperfect outcomes of World War I. Unlikely to appeal to casual readers.