This book, fully revised and updated with new material for the centenary of the Paris Paris Conferences at Versailles in 1919 sets the consequences of the Peace Treaties into their longer term context and argues that the responsibility for Europe's continuing interwar instability cannot be wholly attributed to the peacemakers of 1919-23.

An extensive look at the Versailles settlement in the aftermath of the First World War, given in a revised edition as the centenary of the Paris Peace Conferences at Versailles approaches.