BARREN VICTORIES: VERSAILLES TO SUEZ THE FAILURE OF THE WESTERN ALLIANCE 1918-1956
Written by Basil Collier
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
in 1964
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- WORLD WAR I
BARREN VICTORIES: VERSAILLES TO SUEZ THE FAILURE OF THE WESTERN ALLIANCE 1918-1956
Written by Basil Collier.
Stock no. 1818267
1st.
1964.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A concise, engrossing, and comprehensive re-capitulation of modern history, together with the author's own outspoken appraisal of the deplorably divergent courses of the Western democracies. Beige cloth boards, black title to spine. Neat name & date in pencil to front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few small closed tears and chips.
Front cover
Contents
- PREFACE
- 1. PRELUDE TO PEACE
- 2. THE MEDIATORS
- 3. DESTINATION VERSAILLES
- 4. AFTERMATH
- 5. VERSAILLES TO THE RUHR
- 6. LOCARNO
- 7. MUSIC WITHOUT INSTRUMENTS
- 8. SHANGHAI TO THE RHINELAND
- 9. APPEASEMENT
- 10. MUNICH
- 11. THE DESCENT TO WAR
- 12. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
- 13. DEFEAT AND DELIVERANCE
- 14. THE SEA RETURNS
- 15. THE WIDENING WAR
- 16. ARCADIA TO TEHERAN
- 17. THE ROAD TO BERLIN
- 18. ANVIL TO NAGASAKI
- 19. THE PRICE OF LIBERTY
- 20. TOWARD A VERDICT
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX