If you are reading this series of blog entries on the Paris Pear which I wrote some years ago, you are probably reading and researching the ...

Franz Ferdinand was a difficult person in many ways. Dark. Angry at times. He became heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary when his cousin,...

We will be doing quite a bit more of looking into the border changes upon which the Paris Peace decided. Much German territory was given to...

When I left off speaking of the "Diktat," I mentioned that it took the new republic a few historical moments to absorb what was ...

OK, here I am, guilty again (but at least not guilty of the war!). Probably any readers have given up on me, but I have--he said boldly--not...

We continue here a consideration of the "dictated" nature of the Versailles Treaty. Many scholars of the issue today, perhaps ...

Today ninety years ago, the Versailles Treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Ninety-five years ago today, a Bosnian Serb,...