Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world /
"Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many...
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New York :
Random House,
[2002]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Getting ready for peace. Woodrow Wilson comes to Europe ; First impressions ; Paris ; Lloyd George and the British Empire delegation
- A new world order. We are the league of the people ; Russia ; The League of Nations ; Mandates
- The Balkans again. Yugoslavia ; Rumania ; Bulgaria ; Midwinter break
- The German issue. Punishment and prevention ; Keeping Germany down ; Footing the bill ; Deadlock over the German terms
- Between East and West. Poland reborn ; Czechs and Slovaks ; Austria ; Hungary
- A troubled spring. The Council of Four ; Italy leaves ; Japan and racial equality ; A dagger pointed at the heart of China
- Setting the Middle East alight. The greatest Greek statesman since Pericles ; The end of the Ottomans ; Arab independence ; Palestine ; Atatürk and the breaking of Sèvres
- Finishing up. The Hall of Mirrors
- Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points.