Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a Chaotic China During the First World War Staff Recommended This book is the first

This book is the first publication that documents and displays copies of the drawings

films of war ever made

the legacy of the “war to end all wars” is with us still

this collection has sat

German officials and secret-service operatives plotted to bring war to the United States through an array of schemes and strategies

Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a Chaotic China During the First World War Staff Recommended This book is the firstDescription by Frances Wood Paperback World War I came at an inopportune time for China. The country had joined a number of international organizations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional regional divisions, and its foreign controlled treaty ports and concessions. Unfortunately for the Chinese, representatives of combatant nations navigated a diplomatic