Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world / Margaret MacMillan.
MacMillan, Margaret, 1943- author.; Holbrooke, Richard
2002
D644 .M32 2002 (Mapit)
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Title Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world / Margaret MacMillan.
Author MacMillan, Margaret, 1943- author.
Uniform Title Peacemakers
Edition First U.S. edition.
ISBN 0375508260 (hardcover)
9780375508264 (hardcover)
9780375760525
0375760520
Published New York : Random House, [2002]
Copyright ©2002
Language English
Description xxxi, 570 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Other Standard Identifiers 9780375508264
Call Number D644 .M32 2002
Alternate Call Number 15.50
NQ 1110
cci1icc
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.3/141
Summary "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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-512) and index.
Awards Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize.
Added Author Holbrooke, Richard
Available in Other Form Paris 1919.
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Getting ready for peace. Woodrow Wilson comes to Europe ; First impressions ; Paris ; Lloyd George and the British Empire delegation
A new world order. We are the league of the people ; Russia ; The League of Nations ; Mandates
The Balkans again. Yugoslavia ; Rumania ; Bulgaria ; Midwinter break
The German issue. Punishment and prevention ; Keeping Germany down ; Footing the bill ; Deadlock over the German terms
Between East and West. Poland reborn ; Czechs and Slovaks ; Austria ; Hungary
A troubled spring. The Council of Four ; Italy leaves ; Japan and racial equality ; A dagger pointed at the heart of China
Setting the Middle East alight. The greatest Greek statesman since Pericles ; The end of the Ottomans ; Arab independence ; Palestine ; Atatürk and the breaking of Sèvres
Finishing up. The Hall of Mirrors
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points.

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