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Afterward, Walter read the newspaper she had brought home. “The revolution in Munich is over,” he said.
“For good?”
Walter shrugged. “They’ve caught the leader. It’s Adolf Hitler.”

The war is over, and president Woodrow Wilson was heading toward Paris to discuss the founding of the League of Nations, and the people of the Europe were standing in respect as his train passed them promising the world peace.

Walter and his German stormtroopers advancing well through cities in France, but in Chateau-Thierry he had to face American fresh reinforcements lead by his friend, Gus Dewar. So the war really turn friends into enemies.

Mongke Khan was murdered by the Assasin in the middle of invasion to Sung lands...once again the Mongols were in the brink of civil war over who would be the Great Khan after Mongke...

Lenin was just returned in Russia from exile, and the world revolution begun

In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians had mobilized instead of negotiating; the Germans had refused to attend an international conference to settle the issue; the French had been offered the chance to remain neutral and had spurned it; and now the British were about to join in when they might easily have remained

Fitz was suspicious of peace plans. His main concern was that Britain should maintain its position as the most powerful nation in the world. He was afraid the Liberal government might let that position slip, out of some foolish belief that all nations were equally sovereign.

Hmmm mungkin ini yang ada di benak bangsawan Inggris pada jaman itu, atau mungkin jaman sekarang juga?

Now she knew how the elite lived. They had strange food, prepared in complicated ways, and they wasted more than they ate.