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Peacemakers : the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war

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  • "Paris 1919"
  • "Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war"
  • "Pařížská konference 1919"
  • "Peacemakers : six months that changed the world"@en
  • "Peacemakers"
  • "Peacemakers"@it
  • "Peacemakers: six months that changed the world"

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  • "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, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflicts peacefully, Wilson is only one of the characters who fill the pages of this book. 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. 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. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes preconceived ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War."
  • "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, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflicts peacefully, Wilson is only one of the characters who fill the pages of this book. 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. 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. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes preconceived ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War."

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  • "Peacemakers the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war"
  • "Peacemakers : The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war"
  • "Oi eirēnopoioi : exi mēnes poy allaxan ton kosmo"
  • "Les artisans de la paix : comment Lloyd George, Clemenceau et Wilson ont redessiné la carte du monde"
  • "Paris 1919 : gjashtë muaj gë ndryshuan botën"
  • "París, 1919: seis meses que cambiaron el mundo"@es
  • "Peacemakers : the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war"
  • "Peacemakers : the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war"@en
  • "Mírotvorci : pařížská konference 1919"
  • "Peacemakers the Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war"
  • "Peacemakers : the Paris Conference of 1919 and its attemp to end war"
  • "París, 1919 : seis meses que cambiaron el mundo"@es
  • "Peacemakers : six month that changed the world"
  • "Parigi 1919 : sei mesi che cambiarono il mondo"
  • "Parigi 1919 : sei mesi che cambiarono il mondo"@it
  • "Paris 1919 : da den store krig sluttede"@da
  • "Peacemakers"
  • "Peacemakers : the Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempts to end war"
  • "París 1919 : seis meses que cambiaron el mundo"
  • "Peacemakers : the Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war"@en
  • "Peacemakers : the Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war"
  • "Les artisans de la paix : comment Lloyd Georges, Clemenceau et Wilson ont redessiné la carte du monde"
  • "Peacemakers : the Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war : [six months that changed the world]"
  • "Peacemakers : the Paris conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war"

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