The EssayThe Long Road to PeaceEpisodes Episode guide

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1. Peace in the Levant

   5/5Reflecting on how the First World War finally ended in 1923, when Turkey agreed terms.
2. The World Comes to Paris

   4/5Military historian Hew Strachan on the Paris peace negotiations of 1919 and their legacy.
3. Armistice

   3/5How independently brokered agreements slowly achieved a pause in hostilities in WWI.
4. Peace in the Land of the Soviets

   2/5Historian Hew Strachan explains how revolution precipitated peace in Bolshevik Russia.
5. Enter the Peace Broker

   1/5Hew Strachan discusses Woodrow Wilson's journey from peace broker to belligerent in WWI.