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Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world / Margaret MacMillan ; foreword by Richard Holbrooke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003, c2001.Edition: Random House trade paperback edDescription: xxxi, 570 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780375760525
Uniform titles:
  • Peacemakers
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.3/141 21
LOC classification:
  • D644 .M32 2002
Summary: Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage was an American president, Woodrow Wilson. David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries.
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Books Books Fairmount Public Library General Stacks Non-fiction 940.3 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T 44610

Originally published: Peacemakers. London : J. Murray, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage was an American president, Woodrow Wilson. David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries.

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