Peacemakers by Margaret Macmillan
After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau - but thousands of others came too, each with a different agenda. Kings, prime ministers and foreign ministers with their crowds of advisers rubbed shoulders with journalists and lobbyists for a hundred causes, from Armenian independence to women's rights. Everyone had business that year - T.E. Lawrence, Queen Marie of Romania, Maynard Keynes, Ho Chi Minh. There had never been anything like it before, and there never has been since.;For six extraordinary months the city was effectively the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China and dismissed the Arabs, struggled with the problems of Kosovo, or the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, it has been said, failed dismally, and above all failed to prevent another war.Margaret MacMillan argues that they have been made scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. They tried to be evenhanded, but their goals could never in fact be achieved by diplomacy.
'A terrific piece of writing ! full of wonderful insights and portraits of the statesmen and women of the day'(listed among 'My Six Best Books' by Chris Patten) -- Chris Patten, Daily Express
Margaret MacMillan has a doctorate from St Antony's College, Oxford. Formerly Provost of Trinity College and Professor of History, University of Toronto, she is now Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford. She has written several books including PEACEMAKERS which won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719562334 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719562333 |
| Title | Peacemakers |
| Author | Margaret Macmillan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2002-06-24 |
| Number of pages | 538 |
| Prizes | Winner of Duff Cooper Memorial Prize 2002, Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002, Winner of Duff Cooper Prize 2002 |
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