{"product_id":"the-road-less-traveled-the-secret-battle-to-end-the-great-war-1916-1917","title":"The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwo 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Road Less Traveled\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edescribes 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTheirs 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Road Less Traveled\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e reveals one of the last great mysteries of the Great War: that it simply never should have lasted so long or cost so much.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePhillip Zelikow\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, both at the University of Virginia. A former career diplomat, he was the executive director of the 9\/11 Commission. He worked on international policy in each of the five administrations from Reagan through Obama.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePhilip Zelikow lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.5 x 1.2 x 8.45 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43664911794333,"sku":"9781541750968","price":104.5,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/51SYBoLxMFL._SY291_BO1_204_203_200_QL40_FMwebp.webp?v=1687244776","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/the-road-less-traveled-the-secret-battle-to-end-the-great-war-1916-1917","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}