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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Chronology
Dedication
Title Page
Preface
The Eleventh Hour
Beginnings
Shadows
The mountain and the plain
Drawing the line
Deadlock
Underground and above
Movements
The sage of Princeton
In the ark of the Covenant
Low politics
High command
Allies
Black and white
The eagle’s nest
Backing off
Ends
Ping-pong
‘Der Bademax’
Behind closed doors
Slow march
The approach of midnight
Wilson’s maze
Disintegration and the experts
The surrender document: military and political
Shrinking cells
‘Open country’
The Kaiser’s choice
All Saints
Parting of the ways
An old train
Erzberger’s journey
Ceasefire
Autumn 1918
Berlin in autumn
Robinson Crusoe in Berlin
The ‘masses’
The Kaiser’s last day
A drive to the East
Strange alliances
Groener’s fairy castle
Trains
Chausseestrasse
The soldiers come home
Paris and Washington in autumn
Madelon
The wall across the plain
Clemenceau’s windmills
‘Winning the peace’
An American tsar
Crusaders aboard
Flu
The song of wheat
Wilson’s entry
The ‘old system’
London in autumn
The roar of the Sea Lion
Railway stations
London’s Armistice
The ‘Coupon Election’
Keynes
Calculating debt
Anglos and Americans: a very special relationship
The pantomime visit
Winter 1919
Berlin in winter
Buildings and fragments
The Battle of Christmas Eve
Red holiday
Borders
Parties
Raw material
Rathenau’s revolution of the soul
Revolution in the streets
Rathenau on death
Paris in winter
Keynes on gold
Hankey on peace
Germany marches east
Paris inspects Poland
Deadlock on debt
The devastated regions
The great red herring: mandates
Russians, in and outside Paris
Moscow in winter
A Westerner’s illusions
The ‘city of the Russian bourgeoisie’
Winter in the Year II
Bolshevik economics
A new kind of war
Ruling ‘Sovdepiya: Lenin, Sverdlov and Trotsky
Polish Borders: Lenin’s bridge
Spring 1919
Paris in spring
The end of ideals, the emergence of facts
Berlin’s March Days
Dr Melchior
‘Klotzky’
Guilt and responsibility
A weekend in Fontainebleau
Key to the vault: Poland
The exchange
War of words
Attempted defection
Scapa’d!
Europe, Europe
Wilson’s Europe
Lenin’s Europe
Clemenceau’s Europe
Lloyd George’s Europe
Rathenau’s Europe
Picture Section
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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