Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan$21.25
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 09/09/2003
ISBN: 9780375760525
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d
Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Winner
Review Citations: New York Times 10/12/2003 pg. 24
New York Review of Books 11/20/2003 pg. 26
New York Times 06/05/2005 pg. 30
Library Journal 01/01/2007 pg. 123
New Yorker (The) 08/27/2007 pg. 81
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 09/09/2003
ISBN: 9780375760525
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d
Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Winner
Review Citations: New York Times 10/12/2003 pg. 24
New York Review of Books 11/20/2003 pg. 26
New York Times 06/05/2005 pg. 30
Library Journal 01/01/2007 pg. 123
New Yorker (The) 08/27/2007 pg. 81