MacMillan, who teaches at the University of Toronto and is a great-granddaughter of David Lloyd George, writes extremely well in often evocative prose. She deals with most of Europe and much of Asia as well as Africa and North America occasionally, and addresses the full sweep of events from the 1918 Armistice until the 1923 treaty of Lausanne. Instead, she provides generous amounts of background material and sometimes extensive "aftermaths" on given issues (often to the end of the century). MacMillan does not confine herself to the statesmen and diplomats, to Paris, or to the first six months of 1919. However, as is made clear by excellent maps and photographs as well as a foreword by American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, both titles are misnomers. Under its original title of Peacemakers (2001), Margaret MacMillan's detailed one-volume study of the peace settlement after World War I won three prizes in Britain. Reviewed by Sally Marks (Independent Scholar)
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World.
Margaret is also a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum.Margaret MacMillan. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Geographical Society of Canada, Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and of the Learned Society of Wales, Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto, Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, St Hilda’s College and St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. Her most recent book is War: How Conflict Shaped Us (2020) which was a New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year.
Her books include Women of the Raj (1988, 2007) Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2001) (Peacemakers in the UK) for which she was the first woman to win the Samuel Johnson Prize Nixon in China: Six Days that Changed the World (Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao in the UK) The Uses and Abuses of History (2008) Extraordinary Canadians: Stephen Leacock (2009) The War that Ended Peace (2014).
Antony's College at the University of Oxford. Margaret MacMillan is emeritus Professor of History at the University of Toronto and Professor of International History and the former Warden of St.
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