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Original Title:	Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
ISBN:	0375760520 (ISBN13: 9780375760525)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau
Literary Awards:	Arthur Ross Book Award for Silver Medal (2003), Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Non‐Fiction Book (2003), Duff Cooper Prize (2001), Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2002), Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2002)

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World Paperback | Pages: 570 pages

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'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever written about those fateful months after World War I when the maps of Europe were redrawn. Brimming with lucid analysis, elegant character sketches, and geopolitical pathos, it is essential reading.' Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the larger-than-life characters who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. David Lloyd George, the gregarious and wily British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals, and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China, and dismissed the Arabs. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War. A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created--Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel--whose troubles haunt us still. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize

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Title	:	Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Author	:	Margaret MacMillan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 570 pages
Published	:	September 9th 2003 by Random House Trade (first published September 6th 2001)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Politics. War. World War I

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This review originally appeared on my blog, Shoulda Coulda Woulda Books.Paris 1919 focuses on the peace conference that took place at the end of the First World War (known as the Great War, then, since they mercifully didnt know yet that it would need a number). After all was quiet on the western front in November 1918, the Allies sent representatives to Paris to negotiate the peace terms for the defeated enemy nations and clean up the aftermath of the war. Dozens of nations showed up at the

If reading 900 pages on the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the making of the Treaty of Versailles doesn't seem like your idea of a good time, I'm here to tell you how wrong you are. Margaret MacMillan's "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World" is sensationally good. Not in that, "whew, thank god I'm done - at least I learned something" kind of way, but in that "Damn, I'm done - and there's so much still I want to know!" kind of way. This book is never boring, but does such a great job

Do you know what I hate? I hate it when I find out that something I have known for years and years is not actually true. As a case in point, take the Treaty of Versailles. I hadnt really thought about it all that much, but if asked I would have said that it would have most likely come out of a peace conference and that peace conference would have been held at Versailles. I know, I can be terribly literal at times. I also would have guessed that the conference might have lasted a few days, maybe

What a fantastic read! I learned so much from MacMillan's intricate account of the time after the Great War. Relying on many historical facts and documents, MacMillan offers up not only a depiction of the world in the months after the Armistice had been signed, but how the world changed dramatically. I knew little of the fallout of the Great War, save that there was a Treaty of Versailles. I knew the German reaction to the Treaty and Peace led to the fuelling of animosity and, eventually, the

One of the two best diplomatic histories I've ever read, second only to David Fromkin's The Peace to End All Peace (also, and probably not altogether coincidently, about the arrogance of the Great Powers and the outcome of WWI). The largely tragic ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles are of course well know, but MacMillan does a masterful job of laying out the process by which the treaty was formed, exploring the complexities -- geographic, political, ethnic -- that faced the victors in

What a fantastic read! I learned so much from MacMillan's intricate account of the time after the Great War. Relying on many historical facts and documents, MacMillan offers up not only a depiction of the world in the months after the Armistice had been signed, but how the world changed dramatically. I knew little of the fallout of the Great War, save that there was a Treaty of Versailles. I knew the German reaction to the Treaty and Peace led to the fuelling of animosity and, eventually, the

Yes, I read The War That Ended Peace before Paris 1919. It was great, indeed!