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Paris 1919

Six Months That Changed the World

By Richard Holbrooke, Margaret Macmillan

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| Paperback | 9780375760525

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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 Bo
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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.

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  • Paris 1919 By Margaret MacMillan

    Coming on the heels of the slaughter of millions, the Paris Peace Conference that convened after World War I was a surprisingly civilized gathering of the era's top statesmen. In the first full-length look at the conference in more than 25 years, a d ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • "Paris 1919" by Margaret MacMillan Share

    In 1985, a book about the Paris peace conference which followed the First World War and produced the Treaty of Versailles would surely have interested historians everywhere and non-historians not at all. It would have been a book about obscure person ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Wed, 4 Feb 2004

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  • Great history book with so many anecdotes and little details about how the world was setup by the winners of the WWI. Most political problems today (Islamic radicalism, Israel-Palestine, the Balkans wars, etc) can be tracked down to this conference in PARIS 1919

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 624 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0375760520
  • ISBN-13: 9780375760525
  • Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Pub date: Sep 09, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages Livros em Português
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