The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war.
In a radically original way, this book characterizes the 1920s not as a frustrated prelude to a second global conflict but as a fascinating decad.
In The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges the common assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening of a second European war.
The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war