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The resulting paris peace conference of 1919 aimed at redrawing the map of a europe in which the russian, german, austrohungarian, and ottoman empires lay ruined, and rearranging a world in which new nations were struggling to emerge from those moribund colonial empires. Without question, margaret macmillans paris 1919 is the most honest a. Paris 1919 six months that changed the world margaret macmillan pdf download. Paris, 1919 is a book for any age but it is not a book for the childish. Six months that changed the world margaret macmillan winner of the samuel johnson prizewinner of the pen hessell tiltman prizewinner of the duff cooper prizebetween january and july 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from around the world converged on. She sets out to debunk, i believe successfully, the longembraced view that germany was a victim of a vindictive peace.
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