Making Peace: the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the Postwar World it Ushered In
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"Making Peace: The 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the Post-War World It Opened (Great Power Diplomacy Trilogy)" returns to the diplomatic scene of the 20th century and witnesses the struggle of great powers that gave birth to a new order in the century of war. Oxford University professor and Johnson Prize winner vividly relives the Paris Peace Conference and looks at the sketches of today's world drawn by heads of state a century ago. An earth-shaking war, an unprecedented peace effort, a war that ended war, a peace that ended peace. International relations historian Margaret Macmillan uses a novelistic style and relies on massive documents to present the true history of the Paris Peace Conference. Macmillan uses rich details and poignant writing to show us a group portrait of the peacemakers, vividly expressing their personalities, ideals and prejudices, and is not merciless to her great-grandfather Lloyd George. She told us that the Paris Peace Conference was not only the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations that were criticized by the world, but the outbreak of World War II in 1939 should not be attributed to them either. However, the participants are not exempt from the blame for their poor decision-making. They originally wanted to create peace, but instead planted the seeds for larger-scale wars and more conflicts.
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