Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret Macmillan

This prize-winning national bestseller is the landmark, personality-filled history of the Paris peace conference of 1919, now in paperback. \nNational Bestseller \nNew York Times Editors' Choice \n \nWinner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize \n \nWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize \n \nSilver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award \nof the Council on Foreign Relations \n \nFinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award \n \nFor 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.\n