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November 11, 1918.All across the Western front, the clocks that were lucky enough to escape the four years of shelling chimed the eleventh hour. And with that the First World War came to an end.

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 That the Second World War was a 'good war,' a clear fight against what a madman had brought about, has been a major and fundamental deception solidified in

TOWARDS the close of Woodrow Wilson's campaign for reëlection to the Presidency of the United States, at a moment when prospects seemed unpromising, he remarked: "As compared with the verdict of the next 25 years, I do not care a peppercorn about the verdict of 1916." When those 25 years had passed, the verdict, if taken, would have been blurred by our intervention in the Second World War. How far has the situation been clarified at the present moment, 32 years after Wilson's death, 100 years after his birth?

    Could World War I have been ended in December 1916 with a negotiated peace, thus sparing millions of lives on both sides?   This starting proposition—an end to the war two full years before November 11, 1918—is explored in Philip Zelikow’s new book, The Road Less Traveled. It is a debatable assertion rejected by most historians.   Zelikow, however, is used to controversy. A former U.S. State Department official, he served as the executive director of the national  9/11 Commission and has co-authored two books on the Cold War with Condoleezza Rice.  World War I, of course, di...