Not literally, but it was a meeting with two women that left me with an eerie feeling. I knew right away that this could be the book to pull me out of my slump. I was lucky to receive Diane Chamberlain’s newest book as an Advance Readers Copy. This book offers a prismatic view of the moment when much of the modern world was first sketched out.I have been in a bit of a reading slump.
They tried to be evenhanded, but their goals - to make defeated countries pay without destroying them, to satisfy impossible nationalist dreams, to prevent the spread of Bolshevism and to establish a world order based on democracy and reason - could not be achieved by diplomacy. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally failed above all to prevent another war. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China and dismissed the Arabs, struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. There had never been anything like it before, and there never has been since.įor six extraordinary months the city was effectively the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. Lawrence, Queen Marie of Romania, Maynard Keynes, Ho Chi Minh. Everyone had business in Paris that year - T.E.
Kings, prime ministers and foreign ministers with their crowds of advisers rubbed shoulders with journalists and lobbyists for a hundred causes - from Armenian independence to women's rights. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau.
This book brings to life the personalities, ideals and prejudices of the settlement brokers.īetween January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. The story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, when for six extraordinary months the city was at the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries.
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