FIRST PEACE TREATY OF THE GREAT WAR

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 112, 4 February 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)

FIRST PEACE TREATY OF THE GREAT WAR

“Brest-Litovsk,” by John W. Wheel“ r - Bennett (London: Maemillau).

Students of the Great War, the peace treaties and the European history of the past 20 years, will welcome “BrestLitovsk.” This careful, enlightening account of the important though halfforgotten first peace treaty of the war is of particular interest today when the boundaries of Eastern Europe are prominent among the dramatic news fronts of the world. For Russia the peace of Brest-Litovsk saved the Bolshevik revolution from collapse, and for Germany it contributed in more ways than one to the ultimate collapse of the imperialistic regime. In the pages of this work by John Wheeler-Bennett, author of “Hindenburg, the Wooden Titan,” may be found the ambitions of Nazi Germany incarnated in a generation of yesterday—living in the mind of von Ludendorff, who dreamed and planned a Ukrainian conquest while Herr Hitler was a schoolboy. The story of the events that led up to the negotiations, of the meetings preceding the treaty, of its signing, and the events that followed after, is a dramatic and absorbing one, remarkable alike for its pointed detail and for the light it sheds on contemporary affairs and trends. A book of more than 400 pages, it is profusely annotated, provided with a number of appendices, and illustrated with many photographic reproductions of considerable historic interest and value.