{"product_id":"peacemakers-the-paris-peace-conference-of-1919-and-its-attempt-to-end-war-9780719562372","title":"Peacemakers : The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 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. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson  Lloyd George and Clemenceau. 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 womens rights. Everyone had business in Paris that year - T.E. Lawrence  Queen Marie of Romania  Maynard Keynes  Ho Chi Minh. There had never been anything like it before  and there never has been since. For six extraordinary months the city was effectively the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. 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. The peacemakers  so it has been said  failed dismally; failed above all to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. 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. This book offers a prismatic view of the moment when much of the modern world was first sketched out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67598754316341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0719562376","price":141.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780719562372.jpg?v=1790931483","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/peacemakers-the-paris-peace-conference-of-1919-and-its-attempt-to-end-war-9780719562372","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}