Small Countries in a Big Power World: The Belgian-Dutch Conflict at Versailles, 1919

Hubert P. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, J. D. (1979), Ph.D. (1986), is Professor of History at Augusta University. A native of the Netherlands and a specialist in military and strategic history, he is the author of 5 previous books, including The Netherlands and World War I (Brill, 2001).

• ContentsList of Illustrations and Maps vi1 Far Away Neighbors 12 A Nation and an Idea 173 The Low Countries and the Great War to 1916 374 The Low Countries and the Great War, 1916–1918 745 Crisis and Opportunity, 1918–1919 966 Versailles: The Offensive Begins 1247 Versailles: The Counteroffensive 1548 Victory and Defeat 1829 Postscript 20710 Meanings 227Bibliography 243Index 257

"The sources examined include extensive materials from the Dutch and Belgian archives, as might be expected, and additionally documents providing important insights regarding the United States, France, Britain, and Germany. This is particularlyadvantageous for giving the reader an informative and detailed vantage not only of the Dutch and Belgian participants but also of German strategists and planners whose prewar and wartime decisions influenced the relationship and of the perspectives and infighting among the most powerful of the victorious states which theoretically had the opportunity to address the Dutch-Belgian controversy while awash in the momentous and chaotic issues of the postwar world. Small Countries in a Big Power World is a valuable, interesting, and meaningful book that earns its place on the shelves of diplomatic and World War I history". Nicholas Sambaluk, in H-Net Reviews, August 2020.