@article{BRO-cust20030116-aef,
      note = {"This work was originally published in Great Britain, in  slightly different form, as Peacemakers, by John Murray  (Publishers) Ltd. in 2001"--Title page verso.},
      author = {MacMillan, Margaret, and Holbrooke, Richard},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1405308},
      title = {Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world /},
      abstract = {"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"--Dust jacket flap.},
      number = {BRO-cust20030116-aef},
      recid = {1405308},
      pages = {xxxi, 570 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :},
}