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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375508260
ISBN-13
9780375508264
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2291334

Product Key Features

Book Title
Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Germany, Military / World War I, Presidents & Heads of State
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Margaret Macmillan
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
34.9 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-023707
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Without question, Margaret MacMillan'sParis 1919is 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,Paris 1919is essential reading-the perfect follow-up to Barbara Tuchman's magisterialGuns of August." -Douglas Brinkley,director of the Eisenhower Center "Compelling . . . exactly the sort of book I most like: written with pace and flavored with impudence based on solid scholarship; illuminating tangled subjects with irreverent pen portraits of the individuals concerned; and with a brilliant eye for quotations." -Roy Jenkins,author ofChurchill "Margaret MacMillan's compelling portrait of the heroes and rascals of Versailles, with all their complex and contradictory human and political foibles, breathes life into the most urgent issues still before us. This brilliant and dramatic book rekindles hope in the grand defining themes that emerged as World War I ended: economic justice, human rights, and a league to ensure international amity." -Blanche Wiesen Cook,author ofEleanor Roosevelt "It's easy to get into a war, but ending it is a more arduous matter. It was never more so than in 1919, at the Paris Conference. . . . This is an enthralling book: detailed, fair, unfailingly lively. Professor MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift." -Allan Massie,The Daily Telegraph(London) "Fascinating and funny . . . Most of the problems treated in this book are still with us today-indeed, some of the most horrific things that have been taking place in Europe and the Middle East in the past decade stem directly from decisions made in Paris in 1919. It is . . . instructive and sobering to read about the passions, the humbug and the sheer stupidity that gave rise to them." -The Sunday Times(London) "MacMillan is brilliant at evoking the atmosphere of the conference. . . . Everyone who was anyone-from Elinor Glyn to Marcel Proust-hung around on the fringes of the conference. MacMillan enlivens her narrative with very funny stories about the regions whose affairs the negotiators sought to settle." -Richard Vinen,Financial Times "Macmillan's scrupulously researched, very fluidly written and closely argued book forces us to reexamine our assumptions about the supposed myopia of Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, and Woodrow Wilson as they imposed their settlement on the defeated Central Powers and their allies. . . . To blame Versailles for Hitler's war is to let both him and the appeasers off the hook." -Andrew Roberts,The Sunday Telegraph(London)
Dewey Decimal
940.3/141
Synopsis
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 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 1919is 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. From the Hardcover edition.
LC Classification Number
D644.M32 2002

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