Paris 1919 — Margaret MacMillan

MacMillan reconstructs the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 — six months in which the victors of the First World War attempted to remake the map of the world. The book is structured around the key decisions and the key personalities — Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau — but is equally attentive to the smaller negotiations over the boundaries of Poland, the Balkans, and the Middle East that would determine the course of the following century.