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Sto caricando le informazioni... Parigi 1919: sei mesi che cambiarono il mondo (2001)di Margaret MacMillan
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ӕ As someone who thought I understood the basics of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, how Europe and the Middle East were divided, and its ramifications leading to the Second World War, I found myself surprised at how much I didn't know about the people, the process, and the problems of making the peace. It was quite humbling. I felt MacMillan did an excellent job of providing just the right amount of background information, and blended the before, during, and after accounts of the period to clearly explain why the peace treaty was created as it was, the roles of the key players, the leadup to Germany's subsequent militarization, and the origins of the map of the world as we find it today. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro Wikipedia in inglese (20)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 was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the characters who fill the pages of this book. David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals, and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China, and dismissed the Arabs. They 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; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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