woodrow wilson when he became the first president in office travel outside the western hemisphere. think of that to supervise the creation of 14 new countries that the at the this a peace process found himself down his hands and knees scrambling over maps a very great deal but the solutions of course were toxic to the germans who still claimed as this map shows that a large part of the central landmass of germany of europe should be part of a greater germany and the convention of german geographers. as early as 1921 passed a resolution that any maps and atlas is used in school should show these greater borders rather than the present borders of germany. so that schoolchildren should not lose a sense of grievance about what had happened at the end of the first world war. you. want to come on now to prisoners of war who? of course, they ultimate captive audience for books and many of read incessantly my individual choice. here is second lieutenant francis, who was captured in june of 1940. so was a prisoner of war for almost five years now. many prisoners of war kept a journal. and i