One of Keynes' early work. It gives great insights into an extraordinary tale of diplomatic failures, meek leaders, bad economics and unparalleled greed. Keynes not only undertakes an economic and logical analysis but also turns into a storyteller, narrating to us the unfolding of the "peace". It's fantastic how he correctly predicted the future course of Europe and by extension the world.

It probably is one of the earlier works on how bad economic policies undermine institutions, giving rise to populism, and how abuse of one nation by another, in our connected world, can have disastrous consequences.

According to me, this is a must-read for students of economics, foreign policy, war history, right-wingers of the western world and Donald Trump.