Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan; Richard Holbrooke
Random House
9780375760525
0-375-76052-0

National BestsellerNew York Times Editors Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeSilver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign RelationsFinalist.

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for the Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardFor six months in 1919, after the end of the war to end all wars, the Big ThreePresident Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceaumet in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmark work of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful days, which saw new political entitiesIraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among themborn out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.