Between Jesus and Napoleon
Jonathan Haslam: The Paris Conference of 1919, 15 November 2001
Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
by Margaret MacMillan.
Murray, 574 pp., £25, September 2001,0 7195 5939 1 Show More
by Margaret MacMillan.
Murray, 574 pp., £25, September 2001,
“... brought the mills of Lancashire to a halt for the best part of two years. As monumental New Delhi rose in Lutyens’s imperial splendour, Anglo-Indians anxiously decamped to the suburbs of London. The fate of the Empire mirrored the fate of the treaties. Despite the impressive appearance of permanence, every one of the major buttresses of that high-vaulted ... ”