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1918: War and Peace. By Gregor Dallas. New York: Overlook, 2001. ISBN 1-58567-157-6. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xvi, 614. $40.00.
There is no doubting the ambition of the scope of this book. Indeed, the title does not reveal its full extent since over half its length is devoted to events beyond 1918. It seeks to answer the question of how wars end and tries to recount the epic continuity of the period from 1914 to 1922. Gregor Dallas engages with military, political, and diplomatic history and reviews the political philosophy of men as diverse as Walther Rathenau, the German industrialist turned politician; the British and French war-time and peace conference premiers, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau; the American president, Woodrow Wilson;...