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Haus launches Versailles series

13.02.08 Tom Tivnan

Non-fiction specialist Haus Publishing is launching a 32-book, two-year project on the treaties that ended the First World War, and how they still resonate today.

In the Makers of the Modern World series, the publisher hopes to make the Treaty of Versailles and its consequences accessible to the modern reader. The slimmed down, 176-page books will argue that the roots of current geo-political problems, such as the Balkan and Middle East conflicts, can be traced to the end of the Great War.

Barbara Schwepcke, Haus publisher, said she commissioned the series after the success of a similar 20-volume series on British prime ministers in 2006. She added: "What we want to do is publish serious, ground-breaking history that is also presented in a readable, accessible way."

Thirty-one of the titles will focus on the countries that attended the conferences, using the delegate from each nation as the starting point. The final book, by Ulster University professor and Treaty of Versailles expert Alan Sharp, will sum up the legacy of the conflict.

The series launches on 8th November with the "big four", David Watson's Georges Clemenceau: France, Sharp's David Lloyd George: Great Britain, Brian Morton's Woodrow Wilson: USA and Harry Harmer's Fredrich Ebert: Germany (h/b, £12.99). Titles will be rolled out over the next two years, concluding in November 2010.

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