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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World |  | Author: Margaret MacMillan
Creator: Richard Holbrooke
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Pages: 624
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0375760520
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.3141
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Publication Date: 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. 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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 WWII Devastation July 24, 2010
Hans Zart
"Paris 1919" by Margaret MacMillan is a true classic masterpiece. It tells the story of what really happened in 1919 when Europe was divided by and between the four powers. That division and economic burden on Germany left an opening for the rise of a demigod and set in motion the atrocities of World War II.
To truly understand the significance of this magnificent book you would have to go back to the assassination in Sarajevo of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
A further resource can be found in three books written by The Rev. Henry A. Fischer and available at Amazon.com. They are "Children of the Danube"
" The Pioneers" and "Strangers and Sojourners". These three books deal with the settlement of the Austria - Hungary empire and the Balkan states beginning about 1720 and their expulsion back to their homeland during and after World War II.
These four books should be read by all immigrants who migrated to the new world during that period of time. As Henry puts it so well "Tell the Children" what happened to their ancestors as the result of the division and devastation of the wars.
Johann Zart nee Kehl
from Hrastovac
The Failure of Versailles June 19, 2010
Cody Carlson (Salt Lake City, UT United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Such great hopes were invested in the Paris peace conference of 1919 that it could in no way realistically live up to them. Lloyd George and Clemenceau were determined to make Germany pay through the teeth while Wilson, initially hailed to be the world's new savior, ultimately proved too politically inept to ensure his grand vision. This fascinating piece of diplomatic history is expertly chronicled and interpreted by a first-rate talent. Margaret MacMillan's book "Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World" brilliantly explores this era of great expectations and even greater disappointments. MacMillan offers sections dealing with France, Britain, the USA and virtually every other nation or region that participated in the conference. In this bungled attempt to create a stable and secure post-war world one can easily see the grave injustices that befell Germany, which was in reality no more or less to blame than any other of the Great Powers in starting World War I. The sections dealing with the German delegation, which never in its wildest dreams considered so harsh a peace, are particularly captivating. Their initial cautious hopes gave way suddenly to the stark realization that Britain and France intended the treaty to be a chain around Germany's neck that would prevent it from rising again. Even Wilson could not mitigate the wrath of the victors. The miscalculations at Versailles did not bring peace, but only ensured the rise of a true evil in Germany several years later.
Throughout this book MacMillan presents the players in all of their flawed glory and offers a greater understanding of just how so many with good intentions screwed up so badly. There are lessons here that current leaders would do well to learn. Recommended.
I never understood the difference between peoples and nation-states before February 17, 2010
Martha W. Bonney (Syracuse, New York USA)
Other reviewers have covered this book thoroughly and well. My single point is that the Paris Peace Conference turned geographic areas with highly heterogeneous populations into artificial nation-states based on a single ethnicity-culture and ignoring all the other ethnicities-cultures within their boundaries. We live with the results today, as these nation-states splinter apart. While watching the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympics I was struck by the presence of such countries as "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia." The history of this period is so convoluted I cannot begin to follow the chronological threads; it's like trying to follow a single piece of confetti to the ground in a parade. But it's interesting, exciting reading.
Got to know this by accident February 13, 2010
Ruthie Ann (Oldenburg, IN USA)
I was channel surfing and one of the stations we get is the military channel. Trust me, I very rarely stop at that channel because its usually about weapons and things of that nature. No interest there for me. BUT, this day they were showing a documentary based on this book and I was hooked. I love history for exactly the same reason people like Macmillian write it. To get to know the very human people that were part of it. This book is a gem because it goes beyond the surface level of those who were there. I highly recommend this.
Great Account: Versailles Treaty "Big Four et al." February 3, 2010
Francis A. Diliberto
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Though I agree with most reviews; what I came away with most is the interaction of the various countries: their demands, their weaving diplomacies, their fears, greed, etc. Many expected another conflict in the not too distant future. The apparent lack of geographic knowledge the principals had; yet had the temerity to know where the borders, boundaries, and peoples should live was disquieting. The tragedy of the war should have been SHOWN TO THE WHOLE OF GERMAN PEOPLE IN ENOUGH DETAIL FOR THEM TO APPRECIATED WHAT WAS WROUGHT ON FRANCE & BRITAIN & OTHERS!
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