A Shattered Peace: Versaille 1919 and The Price We Pay Today by David Andelman

Published by Wiley

A revealing look at the powerful lessons the Treaty of Versailles has for us today...

Veteran correspondent David Andelman offers a compelling new perspective on the origin of many of today’s most critical international issues in A Shattered Peace: Versaille 1919 and The Price We Pay Today. He turns the spotlight on the many errors committed by World War I peacemakers that ultimately led to crises from Iraq to Kosovo and wars from the Middle East to Vietnam. He focuses, too, on the small nations and minor players at Versailles, including figures such as Ho Chi Minh and Charles de Gaulle, who would later become boldfaced names. With a cautionary message for us today, he shows how world leaders dismissed repeated warnings from their experts and laid the groundwork for a host of catastrophic events.

About the author
David Andelman is a veteran foreign and domestic correspondent.  He has reported from fifty-two countries and lived on three continents.  A graduate of Harvard College, where he first prepared an award-winning honors thesis on the Treaty of Versailles, Andelman then embarked on a notable career as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News in Europe and Asia, including seven years as Paris correspondent. Later, he was Washington correspondent for Bloomberg News and business editor of the New York Daily News.  He currently serves as executive editor of Forbes.com and is a senior member of the Council on Foreign Affairs.  He lives in New York City.

ISBN: 978-0-471-78898-0, Hardback, £13.99/19.60 EUR

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