Paris 1919

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 Clemenceaumet 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. (From Random House)

Paris 1919won the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction in 2003.

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