Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

National Bestseller New York TimesEditors' 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 ThreePresident Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceaumet 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 entitiesIraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among themborn out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.

<b>Margaret MacMillan</b> received her Ph.D. from Oxford University and is provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto. Her previous books include <i>Women of the Raj</i> and <i>Canada and NATO</i>. Published as <i>Peacemakers</i> in England, <i>Paris 1919</i> was a bestseller chosen by Roy Jenkins as his favorite book of the year. It won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize and was a finalist for the Westminster Medal in Military Literature. MacMillan, the great-granddaughter of David Lloyd George, lives in Toronto.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>