02381cam a2200361 i 4500 486287779 TxAuBib 20210330120000.0 201102s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020044440 9781541750951 HRD 30.00 1541750950 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Zelikow, Philip, 1954- The Road less traveled [BOOK] : the secret battle to end the Great War, 1916-1917 / Philip Zelikow. First edition. New York : PublicAffairs, 2021. 334 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Two years into the most terrible conflict the world had ever known, the warring powers faced a crisis. There were no good military options. Money, men, and supplies were running short on all sides. The German chancellor secretly sought President Woodrow Wilson's mediation to end the war, just as British ministers and France's president also concluded that the time was right. The Road Less Traveled describes how tantalizingly close these far-sighted statesmen came to ending the war, saving millions of lives, and avoiding the total war that dimmed hopes for a better world. Theirs was a secret battle that is only now becoming fully understood, a story of civic courage, awful responsibility, and how some leaders rose to the occasion while others shrank from it or chased other ambitions. "Peace is on the floor waiting to be picked up!" pleaded the German ambassador to the United States. This book explains both the strategies and fumbles of people facing a great crossroads of history. Provided by publisher. 20210330. World War, 1939-1945 Peace. World War, 1914-1918 Diplomatic history. Peace-building History 20th century. Peace movements Europe History 20th century. Germany Foreign relations 1888-1918. France Foreign relations 1914-1940. Great Britain Foreign relations 1901-1936. United States Foreign relations 1913-1921.