National Bestseller
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations
Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
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 Clemenceau—met 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.
Chapter 1: Woodrow Wilson Comes to Europe
Chapter 4: Lloyd George and the British Empire Delegation
Chapter 5: We Are the League of the People
Chapter 7: The League of Nations
Chapter 13: Punishment and Prevention
Chapter 14: Keeping Germany Down
Chapter 16: Deadlock Over the German Terms
Chapter 18: Czechs and Slovaks
Chapter 21: The Council of Four
Chapter 23: Japan and Racial Equality
Chapter 24: A Dagger Pointed at the Heart of China
Chapter 25: The Greatest Greek Statesman Since Pericles
Chapter 26: The End of the Ottomans
Chapter 29: Atatürk and the Breaking of Sèvres
Chapter 30: The Hall of Mirrors
APPENDIX - Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points