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Review of Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Paris, 1919 – the Post-World War I peace conference of the winning allies – is many things. It was a reckoning against the so-called aggressors (or losers); a carve-up of territories and ethnic groups as ethnolinguistic nationalism was hitting full stride; and an attempt to create a new kind of international law to govern relations between nations. View…