<![CDATA[Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World]]>

false <![CDATA[Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167801093m/26348.jpg 26348 9 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. 833092 2001 Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World total:501|5:143|4:225|3:110|2:21|1:2| 501 1989 964 112 4 10 false false Thu Dec 18 16:56:21 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 02:23:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 29 09:28:09 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 09:39:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jan 27 04:29:50 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 04:31:18 -0800 2008 The Peace to End All Peace (also, and probably not altogether coincidently, about the arrogance of the Great Powers and the outcome of WWI). The largely tragic ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles are of co...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 12:03:58 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 15:04:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 13:56:42 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 14:03:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 28 08:17:25 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 08:21:08 -0700 2009
The book looks at what each great power wanted as they carved up E...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Oct 15 12:14:07 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 12:19:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Feb 08 06:37:41 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 06:52:13 -0800 2009 1
Here you meet th...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 11:19:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 11:26:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 21:06:43 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 21:12:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Mar 31 10:25:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 09:59:44 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 31 10:25:00 -0700 2009 Margaret MacMillan has done a decent job in identifying and cataloging the events that occurred through out Europe in 1919. However, she falls into the same pit that is evidenced by many European historians who write for the average audience.

Her research is impeccable, but there is litt...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 03 12:34:37 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 13:31:56 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 12:34:37 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 22 09:35:20 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 19 09:11:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 08:12:18 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 08:12:18 -0700 2007 talks following World War I. This explains the
map of Europe drawn at that time and how it got
that way. Each country involved gets a chapter.
There are all kinds of interesting characters,
of whom the author draws colorf...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 05:20:16 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 05:38:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Aug 09 06:58:56 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 07:40:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 20:07:39 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 14:55:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 15:27:58 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 21:46:09 -0700 2007
However, I take issue with the way this book was organized. By structuring the book by region instead of chronologically, each major territorial dispute is seen somewhat...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 18 06:40:41 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 08:22:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 11 14:35:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 14:40:14 -0700 2009 World War I. It has a lot of detail and many interesting characters, yet it lacks an intangible quality that is difficult to define but it kept it from receiving a 5 star rating. Its chapter about the German signing of th...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=26348