Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2002) is a historical narrative based on the events of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was written by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan with a foreword by American diplomat Richard Holbrooke. The book has also been published under the titles Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World and Peacemakers: Six Months That Changed the World.
Peacemakers describes the six months of negotiations that took place in Paris, France following World War I. The book focuses on the "Big Three", photographed together on its cover (left to right): Prime Minister Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, Premier Georges Clemenceau of France, and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States.
The book argues that the conditions imposed on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles did not lead to the rise of Adolf Hitler. David Lloyd George is the author's great grandfather.
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