The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Turning Point of the Great War, 1916-1917 Zelikow Philip
The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Turning Point of the Great War, 1916-1917 Zelikow Philip This revealing historical examination looks at the pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War,…
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The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Turning Point of the Great War, 1916-1917 Zelikow Philip
This revealing historical examination looks at the pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War, when all sides--Germany, Britain, and America--believed the war could have been concluded and changed the course of history. Two years into the most terrible conflict the world had ever known, the warring powers faced a crisis. Money, men, and supplies were running short on all sides. There were no good military options.
The Road Less Traveled describes how tantalizingly close these far-sighted statesmen came to ending the war, saving millions of lives, and avoiding the total war that dimmed hopes for a better world. The German chancellor secretly sought President Woodrow Wilson's mediation to end the war, just as British ministers and France's president also concluded that the time was right. Theirs was a secret battle that is only now becoming fully