Margaret MacMillan

Margaret MacMillan brings her extraordinary gifts to two of the most important countries today, the United States and China, and one of the most significant moments in modern history....

From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I....

Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity....

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world....

In Dangerous Games, Margaret MacMillan illustrates how history should never be presented as a series of facts, but instead as a framing device for understanding the past....

For six months, the world's major leaders met in Paris to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One....

The story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, when for six extraordinary months the city was at the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries....

With the publication of her best seller Paris 1919, MacMillan was praised as "a superb writer..." (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her gifts to one of the most important subjects today and one of the most significant moments in modern history....