TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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.
AU  - MacMillan, Margaret,
AU  - Holbrooke, Richard
CN  - D644
ET  - First U.S. edition.
ID  - 1405308
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
KW  - Peace.
KW  - Boundaries.
KW  - Vredesverdrag van Versailles (1919)
KW  - Vredesonderhandelingen.
KW  - Internationale conflicten.
KW  - Europe.
KW  - Peace conferences.
KW  - Diplomatic conferences.
KW  - Peace negotiations.
KW  - Peace treaties (1919-1920).
KW  - Paris.
KW  - 1919.
KW  - World War I.
KW  - History.
KW  - Traité de Versailles (1919)
N1  - "This work was originally published in Great Britain, in slightly different form, as Peacemakers, by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. in 2001"--Title page verso.
N2  - "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.
SN  - 0375508260
SN  - 9780375508264
SN  - 9780375760525
SN  - 0375760520
T1  - Paris 1919 :six months that changed the world /
TI  - Paris 1919 :six months that changed the world /
ER  -