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National Bestseller New York Times Editors' Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award For six months in 1919, after the end of "the war to end all wars," the Big Three--President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau--met 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 entities--Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them--born out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.
Author: Margaret MacMillan
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 09/09/2003
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780375760525
ISBN10: 0375760520
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War I
- History | Ancient | General
- History | World | General
of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award For six months in 1919, after the end of "the war to end all wars," the Big Three--President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau--met 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 entities--Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them--born out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.
Author: Margaret MacMillan
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 09/09/2003
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780375760525
ISBN10: 0375760520
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War I
- History | Ancient | General
- History | World | General
About the Author
Margaret MacMillan received her Ph.D. from Oxford University and is provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto. Her previous books include Women of the Raj and Canada and NATO. Published as Peacemakers in England, Paris 1919 was a bestseller chosen by Roy Jenkins as his favorite book of the year. It won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize and was a finalist for the Westminster Medal in Military Literature. MacMillan, the great-granddaughter of David Lloyd George, lives in Toronto.