Paris Peace Conference, 1919

MICHAEL DOCKRILL is Professor of Diplomatic History at King's College, London. He has written books and articles on various aspects of British foreign policy and strategy in the twentieth century, including British Defence since 1945 and British Establishment Perspectives in France, 1936-40. He is general editor of the Macmillan/King's College series Studies in Military and Strategic History. - JOHN FISHER is reader adviser at the Public Record Office, Kew. He is the author of Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-19 and has contributed articles to numerous journals.

• Notes on the Contributors Preface: The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwall Acknowledgements Introduction: M.Dockrill & J.Fisher The Rise and Fall of Morality in Peacemaking; Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwall The Hall of Mirrors: What Was Done and Not Done at Versailles; Z.Steiner Holding up the Flag of Britain...with Sustained Vigour and Brilliance or 'Sowing the Seeds of European Disaster'? Lloyd George and Balfour at the Paris Peace Conference; A.Sharp 'Appeasement' at the Paris Peace Conference; A.Lentin 'That Elusive Entity British Policy in Russia': The Impact of Russia on British Policy at the Paris Peace Conference; K.Neilson The Treaty of Versailles: 'Never Again' and Appeasement; K.Robbins Missions Impossible: General Smuts, Sir George Clerk and British Diplomacy in Central Europe in 1919; M.Lojko The Eastern Question: The Last Phase; E.Goldstein New Diplomacy and Old: A Reassessment of British Conceptions of a League of Nations, 1918-20; R.Henig Before Gooch and Temperley: The Contributions of Austen Chamberlain and J.W. Headlam-Morley Towards 'instructing the mass of the public', 1912-1926; K.Wilson Index

'...the book is exceptionally good...a fine contribution to scholarship...one that deserves to be read widely.' - G.H. Bennett, International History Review