Versailles: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Versailles, credited to Karl Friedrich Nowak, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Versailles by Karl Friedrich Nowak. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. World War 1 ended with the Paris Peace Conference (January 1919 to January 1920), which in turn resulted in the signing of five peace treaties. The most important of these, the Treaty of Versailles (June 1919) assigned the responsibility for the war and its damages to Germany and her allies. There have been many critics of this peace process and of the Treaty of Versailles, and it is common for historians to find the roots of World War 2 in that treaty and in the German sense of grievance with it. This account, first published in Berlin in German in 1927, traces the peace talks and the process that led to the crushing terms of the Versailles Treaty for Germany. The author was a German journalist who served as a war correspondent with the German Army throughout the war. - Summary by Ted Lienhart

Recording facts

• Recording title: Versailles
• Author credits: Karl Friedrich Nowak
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 9:27:35

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• treaty of versailles
• paris peace conference
• world war 1914-1918 results

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 1:53
2. 01 - The End of the Fighting — 26:43
3. 02 - The World-Straightener — 20:28
4. 03 - The Machinery of the Conference — 27:02
5. 04 - The League of Nations — 19:03
6. 05 - Consciences and Colonies — 39:39
7. 06 - Wilson Triumphator — 15:30
8. 07 - Lloyd George in Deep Waters — 19:51
9. 08 - American Statesmen — 11:14
10. 09 - The Shadow of Monroe — 10:56
11. 10 - The French Programme (Part 1) — 32:18
12. 11 - The French Programme (Part 2) — 29:09
13. 12 - The French Programme (Part 3) — 28:52
14. 13 - Wilson's Hidden Nature — 19:16
15. 14 - The Collapse of Idealism — 37:03
16. 15 - The Vanquished (Part 1) — 38:48
17. 16 - The Vanquished (Part 2) — 40:11
18. 17 - The Hour of Retribution — 26:37
19. 18 - The Struggle Against the Peace Treaty (Part 1) — 39:52
20. 19 - The Struggle Against the Peace Treaty (Part 2) — 40:01
21. 20 - The Surrender — 43:09

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