Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan

Book cover for Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

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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  • On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read this book and commented:

    Snatching future war from the jaws of peace.

  • On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read this book and commented:

    A long conference that guaranteed another war.