Jay Winter is an historian of the First World War, trained at Columbia and Cambridge. His first job was at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he then taught at Warwick, Cambridge, Columbia, and Yale, from which he retired in 2015. His work has focused on many facets of the history of the Great War, including labour history, demographic history, and most recently, cultural history. He has been active in public history as well as academic history. He was a founder of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, and served on its board of directors of its research centre for 30 years.

On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. Jay Winter tells the story of the peace conference, and its outcome. He shows how peace came before justice, and how the conference and the Treaty set in motion forces leading to the global war that followed in 1939.

• Introduction: War and Peace


• Part 1. The International Context


• 1: The road from Geneva


• Part 2. The Eastern states: Reconfiguring the nation


• 2: The road from Ankara


• 3: The road from Athens


• 4: The road from Yerevan


• Part 3. The Western states: Reconfiguring empire


• 5: The road from London


• 6: The road from Paris


• 7: The road from Rome


• Conclusion