Anatomy of a Diplomatic Failure
Philip Zelikow's "The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917" shows just how hard it is to end wars - even when that's what everyone wants
Philip Zelikow’s The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 offers a compelling case that active American diplomacy could have brought the First World War to a negotiated end in the last months of 1916 and first months of 1917. Zelikow – former executive director of the 9/11 Commission and counselor to Secretary of State C…
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