TY - BOOK AU - MacMillan,Margaret TI - Paris 1919: six months that changed the world AV - D644 .M32 2002 U1 - 940.3/141 21 PY - 2003///, c2001 CY - New York PB - Random House Trade Paperbacks KW - Wilson, Woodrow, KW - Paris Peace Conference KW - (1919-1920) KW - Treaty of Versailles KW - (1919) KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Peace KW - Germany KW - History KW - 1918-1933 KW - Boundaries N1 - Originally published: Peacemakers. London : J. Murray, 2001; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 ER -