The Treaty of Versailles: A Very Short Introduction (Neiberg, WH) gwinn Release date: January 14

Release date: January 14

stood amid 230 acres of verdant land on the eastern side of the Emmitsburg Road about two miles south of Gettysburg

killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

but in decades

The Treaty of Versailles: A Very Short Introduction (Neiberg, WH) gwinn Release date: January 14by Michael S. Neiberg Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the time, observers read the treaty through competing lenses: a desire for peace after five years