Passion and Restraint: Poles and Poland in Western Diplomacy, 1914-21

Much of today’s international order can be traced to the experimentations with governance that occurred in central Europe immediately after World War I. And though Western governments did not bring about the creation of Poland on their own or determine all of its eventual borders, their attempts to do so left many lingering grudges and made the years immediately following the war a crucial period in Polish and international history.

Passion and Restraint examines how British, French, and Ame...