Okay,000 miles from home, an American army is fighting for you.

To the end, it's the high-eye deals for which America... Okay, that's enough of that, it's the high ideal for which America...

Okay, that's enough of that.

No need to hear that introduction of music ever again.

I've heard it 90 times already, and I'm fairly sick of it.

I don't know about you.

I'm just kidding.

Welcome, history friends, patrons all, to the Versailles Retrospective.

So here we are.

85 episodes later, nearly eight months,

we come to the end of this Wopper project. What have we learned after all of this content?

What can we take away from the Peace Conference having delved into it on a scale, never before seen

in history podcasting or history generally? First and foremost, we learned that this is a long and laborious process,

that it was long and laborious for those that labored a century ago. Does anyone really remember

what happened back in mid-March when Wilson and Clemenceau had their first dust-up, or when

Lloyd George argued about mandates? All of it seems like a big blur, impossible in many respects

to actually make sense of. The sheer amount of detail and information which the conference

threw up is overwhelming. It was overwhelming to the peacemakers, who emerged from the whole

process utterly exhausted, and having followed their exploits chronologically, I know how they feel. I should give a shout

out to my friend Wesley, who has been doing a great job with his History of the Great War podcast,

which you should check out. Unlike me, Wesley decided to opt for the saner approach, and he covered

the Treaty of Versailles in 16 episodes, organized by topic and theme,

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