A remarkable read. I struggle to summon up the headline figures and demands of the Treaty of Versailles which I once knew by rote, but some of the detail and expanded illustration here from Keynes is shocking. I recalled the vast demands, but not the totality of them. Truly no stone was left unturned in an effort to secure every possible reparation.

Keynes paints an unerringly bleak picture of Europe's future as he illustrates in detail how a continent broken by total war cannot possibly hope to recover under the auspices of this Treaty. Inflation and starvation were coming, the reparations could never, would never be paid. Its all the more exasperating to read Keynes analysis and prescriptions, knowing how things turned out.

With thanks to Project Gutenburg.