The World Crisis: The Aftermath

Winston S. Churchill

• Publisher: RosettaBooks
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780795331510
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

The aftermath of World War I is explored in the fourth volume of Winston Churchill's "remarkable" eyewitness account of history (Jon Meacham, bestselling author of Franklin and Winsto n ). Once the war was over, the story didn't end—not for Winston Churchill, and not for the West. The fourth volume of Churchill's series, The World Crisis: The Aftermath documents the fallout of WWI—including the Irish Treaty and the peace conferences between Greece and Turkey. The period immediately after World War I was extremely chaotic—and it takes a genius of narrative description and organization to accurately and accessibly describe it for us. Churchill, who went on to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, depicts the international disorganization and anarchy in the period immediately after the war—with the unique perspective of both a historian and a political insider. "Whether as a statesman or an author, Churchill was a giant; and The World Crisis towers over most other books about the Great War." —David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• I. ‘The Broken Spell’
• II. Demos
• III. Demobilisation
• IV. Russia Forlorn
• V. Intervention
• VI. The Fourteen points
• VII. The Peace Conference
• VIII. The League of Nations
• IX. The Unfinished Task
• X. The Triumvirate
• XI. The Peace Treaties
• XII. The Russian Civil War
• XIII. The Miracle of the Vistula
• XIV. The Irish Spectre
• XV. The Irish Settlement
• XVI. The Rise of the Irish Free State
• XVII. Turkey Alive
• XVIII. Greek Tragedy
• XIX. Chanak
• XX. The End of the World Crisis
• Appendix
• Endnotes