num_pages: 574
description: 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.
language: English
title: Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war
titlecomplete: Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and its attempt to end war
characters: David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson
genres: Historical, Audiobook, History, World War I, France, War, European History, Politics, World History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 13545
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Arthur Ross Book Award
category: Silver Medal, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Non‐Fiction Book, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Duff Cooper Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Hessell-Tiltman Prize
publisher: J. Murray