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This time I would like to recommend Paris 1919, six months that changed the world by Margaret

McMillan.

This is the story of six months in Paris that changed the world.

At the close of World War I between January and July of 1919, delegates from around the

world converged on Paris to try to figure out what to do to stop any future war.

New countries were created, old empires were dissolved and for six months everybody focused

on Paris.

It's an amazing story and you get the real behind the scenes of the maneuverings going

on, the trouble, the tension between the allied leaders about what the president wanted

versus the prime minister versus the premier of France.

It's an amazing story and it really does set up a lot of things.

So what Germany was angry about will make a lot more sense.

It's an amazing read, this book has won awards.

I can't remember the name of the award right now, but it's an amazing book and it's well

written and it's well read and I think you'll enjoy it very much.

Hello, and thank you for listening to a History of World War II.

At episode 39, the dictator that wasn't.

The Great War, as far as Hitler was concerned, was over.

Rusty and uncomfortably in a military hospital in Payswalk, Pomerania, his site was gone and

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