The Kings Depart
 is the definitive story of a brief, pivotal moment in human history 
when the course and shape of the twentieth century might have been 
altered. Author Richard M. Watt begins with the defeat of the Kaiser in 
1918 and the convention of the Versailles conference, where Europe was 
to be remade. This was the time when the victorious Allies might have 
imposed democracy on Europe by means of a peace with justice. Watt's
 gripping narrative quickly becomes tragedy as diplomacy and politics 
fail at every turn. He tells of victorious Allies too greedy and 
short-sighted to impose equitable peace on a defeated Germany, of 
Woodrow Wilson's tortured betrayal of his own idealism, and of a German 
people caught up in the realities of revolution, anarchy, and 
violence--waiting for the inevitable rise of a leader to exact vengeance
 on Europe--a Fuhrer. What began with the church bells of victory and 
hopes ends a year later in the first appearance of Adolf Hitler as a 
political power.

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