‘Generalissimo’ or ‘Skunk’? The Impact of Georges Clemenceau’s Leadership on the Western Alliance in 1918

The winter of 1917–18 marked a nadir in Allied morale during the First World War. To address this problem, British prime minister David Lloyd George issued a liberal war aims speech on 5 January 1918. Three days later American president Woodrow Wilson set forth his famous Fourteen Points. Historians, however, have not paid sufficient attention [...]