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090			_aD644 _b.M32 2002b
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100	1		_aMacMillan, Margaret, _d1943- _96037
245	1	0	_aPeacemakers : _bthe Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war / _cMargaret MacMillan
246	3	0	_aParis Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war
246	1	4	_aPeacemakers: six months that changed the world
260			_aLondon : _bJohn Murray, _c2002, c2001
300			_axii, 574 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill., maps, plan, ports. ; _c20 cm
500			_aOriginally published: 2001
500			_aCover title: Peacemakers: six months that changed the world
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520			_aBetween 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
600	1	0	_aWilson, Woodrow, _d1856-1924 _96038
600	1	0	_aLloyd George, David, _d1863-1945 _96039
610	2	0	_aLeague of Nations _96040
611	2	0	_aParis Peace Conference _d(1919-1920) _96041
630	0	0	_aTreaty of Versailles _d(1919 June 28) _96042
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xPeace _96043
651		0	_aGermany _xHistory _y1918-1933 _96044
651		0	_aGermany _xBoundaries _96045
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