The Modern Scholar

Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919

By: Dr. Margaret MacMillan

Narrated by: Dr. Margaret MacMillan

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

The world will never see another peace conference like the one which took place in Paris in 1919. For six months, the world's major leaders - including Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, David Lloyd George, prime minister of Great Britain, and Georges Clemenceau, prime minister of France - met to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One.

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©2003 Margaret MacMillan (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLC

Keep On Learning!

How did I miss this in school, way back when? This story of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference is told in a most interesting way and very relevant to our understanding of the world today. I am grateful for Dr. MacMillan, who wrote and presents this illuminating account of a critical historic event. I just keep getting smarter and smarter, the more I listen!

The story is well organized and easy to follow. It probably helps to have some idea of the geography involved- could look at a map if you're not familiar with it. Note you get a pdf with the download that has additional background information that sheds even more light on the subject. I highly recommend.

Great Read

This is wonderfully entertaining - The content is informative, important, relevant and illuminating.

The author/narrator does a great job.

The text is an easy read, yet not simplistic.

Great book. Did you know that Czechoslovakia 'stole' the Sudetenland from Austria, giving Hitler a pretext to invade them twenty years later? Fascinating.

Enjoyed it and leaned a great deal

This was my first "The Modern Scholar" course and wasn't sure what to expect. It was wonderful. The author/professor Dr. Margaret MacMillan explained it like a college class. Broken out into 14 separate classes/chapters, she described in great detail the end of WW1, the Treaty of Versailles, all the players involved, and the effects on the world for decades to come, well into the 21 century. I highly recommend it.

Highly recommended

I especially liked the small anecdotes Prof. MacMillan inserts in between the events. Her analysis of the personalities involved in the conference together with those anecdotes gives a human perspective to the decisions made in Paris in 1919.

The class I wish I had growing up

Very informative and engaging. I have acquired a wealth of knowledge about world geopolitics, history and overall climate at WWI. My only reservation is the speed at which the content is delivered. I’ve had to change the speed to 0.75 and still needed to rewind every so often to avoid missing important information.

Wonderful, very well organized and digestible

Margaret MacMillan is a wonderful speaker. This is a brilliant series of lectures which I enjoyed very much.

Best Audible Title Yet

Dr MacMillan has a great voice. I felt like she was speaking to me - not reading a script. Excellent articulation and enunciation. I am finding myself listening to this one again and again, from different start points. My friends at work are amazed by how much I now know about this important event in modern history. If Dr MacMillan comes up with another title - I'm buying it. Wish I'd had professors as interesting as her in university...

Great Listen

I really enjoyed Margaret's reading. I now have a much better understanding of the post war scene in 1919.

utterly fascinating

loved how much I learned about this seminal world event. the author was clear and nuanced, keeping it interesting the whole time.
before this I didn't have any idea about the worldwide scale of the peace conference, and I tied in many significant events and forces going on at the time. excellent!

Excellent

It was a pleasure to listen to Professor MacMillan's lectures. Made me wish I could have taken one of her courses when I was studying history at university. Full of very interesting facts and information and it is clear that this is a subject she enjoys very much.