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Book excerpt: ‘The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917′ Philip Zelikow "The Road Less Traveled" by Philip Zelikow (Hachette Book Group) During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the end of 1916 would have saved millions of lives and changed the course of history utterly. Two years into the most terrible conflict the world had ever known, the wa...

3/14/2021 Peace, Waiting to Be Picked Up: The Secret Diplomacy Failure of 1916 that Changed the World Historians/History by Philip Zelikow Philip Zelikow 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 R...