Victors Divided: America and the Allies in Germany, 1918-1923

Victors Divided: America and the Allies in Germany, 1918–1923 by Keith L. Nelson reexamines the United States’ first military occupation of Germany and the ways it shaped both American foreign policy and the fragile European peace after World War I. Moving beyond the familiar debates over the League of Nations or the rise of economic imperialism, Nelson argues that American leaders were centrally concerned with restoring “normal” liberal order in Europe. That project was hampered by conflic...