Bringing them vividly to life, MacMillan reviews the conference’s considerable failures and accomplishments. of Toronto) focuses on the complex relationships among the three disparate personalities who dominated the Conference: Wilson, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and British prime minister David Lloyd George (the author’s great-grandfather). Lawrence, Greek patriot Eleutherios Venizelos, Poland’s Roman Dmowski, and Japan’s Prince Saionji, but MacMillan (History/Univ. Diverse characters came to Paris, including British Arabist T.E. The resulting Paris Peace Conference of 1919 aimed at redrawing the map of a Europe in which the Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman Empires lay ruined, and rearranging a world in which new nations were struggling to emerge from those moribund colonial empires. From Canadian historian MacMillan ( Women of the Raj, not reviewed), a lively and thoughtful examination of the conference that ended the war to end all wars.Īfter more than four years of carnage on a scale the world had never before seen, WWI ended with an exhausted Germany asking the exhausted Allies for an armistice based on American President Woodrow Wilson’s idealistic formula for a just peace.
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