Hi there. Welcome to the latest episode of the Versa Inaiversary Project. My name is Zach Twomley. You are a history friend and you were listening to the most ridiculously detailed, most insanely in-depth project this podcast has ever looked at. If you weren't aware, I am Zach Twomley, as I said, and I am a lecturer, a podcaster, an author, and just an all-round,

ridiculously nerdy guy.

This year, the Versailles Anniversary Project is an in-depth account of the Paris Peace

Conference that produced that infamous Treaty of Versailles a century ago.

We're very excited about how it's gone so far, and judging by the size of episodes like

these, we have an awful lot of ground still to cover, even though we've been doing this since

mid-November. When Diplomacy Fails is the vehicle for this project, and you should of course

know that when diplomacy fails is a listener-supported podcast supported by listeners just like yourself.

We'll bring it to you several times a week, because several times a week a century ago,

these people were very busy indeed.

Surely regular people wouldn't have time to delve into all this stuff, but thankfully

Zach Twomley is not like other people.

You see, he's managed to find the secret of cloning himself

and as a result, he has all the time in the world to do this stuff. Seriously though, if not for the

support you guys gave me, I wouldn't have, I rebel, I wouldn't full stop be able to justify doing all this,

let alone have the ability to carve out time from my very busy schedule.

I really enjoy doing this and it's thanks to you guys that you are making this dream of mine come true.

Thanks to the monetary support you guys give through Patreon, this podcast serves as pretty much

my job and because of that I'm able to spend all this lovely time on it.

If you would like to contribute to this monetary support and also get some pretty sweet things back in return,

make sure you head over to patreon.com forward slash when diplomacy fails.

You can, if you give $5 a month, access the Suez Crisis, which is a special series that is released twice a month, at least it used to be,

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