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- 100 1_ |a MacMillan, Margaret, |d 1943-
- 245 10 |a Paris 1919 : |b six months that changed the world / |c Margaret MacMillan ; foreword by Richard Holbrooke.
- 250 __ |a Random House trade pbk. ed.
- 260 __ |a New York : |b Random House, |c 2003,
- 300 __ |a xxxi, 570 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill., maps ; |c 24 cm.
- 500 __ |a Originally published: Peacemakers. London : J. Murray, 2001.
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 520 __ |a 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 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 idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the characters who fill the pages of this book. David Lloyd George, the 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.
- 600 10 |a Wilson, Woodrow, |d 1856-1924.
- 611 20 |a Paris Peace Conference |d (1919-1920)
- 650 _0 |a World War, 1914-1918 |x Peace.
- 651 _0 |a Germany |x History |y 1918-1933.
- 651 _0 |a Germany |x Boundaries.
- 700 1_ |a Holbrooke, Richard.