Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
Random House Publishing Group · Print & ebook · September 9, 2003
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A brisk look at power, diplomacy, and the aftershocks of Paris 1919.
- Genres
- World War I History, Diplomacy, French History
- Published
- Random House Publishing Group, September 9, 2003
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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.
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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.
Aftermath and Power
A brisk look at power, diplomacy, and the aftershocks of Paris 1919.
Come here for
- statecraft under pressure
- clear, usable history
Expect
- politics and military history in tandem
- classroom-ready context without the fog
Where it sits
| World War I History | 90% |
|---|---|
| Diplomacy | 67% |
| French History | 54% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Presidents & World Leaders
- World War I History
- Diplomacy
- Authors
- Margaret MacMillan, Richard Holbrooke, Casey Hampton
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- September 9, 2003
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Presidents & World Leaders