The famous historian Hugh J. Schonfield draws together a selection of speeches of Woodrow Wilson and demonstrates this great man's dream of a better world where all can live in peace. Today, his words still carry a very relevant and timely message in a world yet to learn its lesson, yet we are left asking what happened to America's vision. "Woodrow Wilson gave up his health and eventually his life in the first attempt, a generation ago, to preserve the world's peace through united world action. At that time, there were many who said that Wilson had failed. Now we know that it was the world...

An authority on the Suez Canal, Hugh Schonfield has written four books on the subject: "Ferdinand de Lesseps"; "Italy and Suez"; "The Suez Canal"; and "The Suez Canal in World Affairs," published in 1952. He contributes the article on the Suez in Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. A historian and biographer, Hugh Schonfield was educated at St. Paul's School and Glasgow University. Most of his published works deal with the ancient civilisations of the Near and Middle East in which he early developed an interest. He has been prominent in the spheres of World Citizenship and World...