Margaret MacMillan
Margaret Olwen MacMillan is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is the former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University.
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Margaret Olwen MacMillan is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is the former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University.
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Birth date: 1943-12-23
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The events leading up to WW1 are fascinating and horrifying, like watching a train crash. MacMillan does a great job of walking through the years before the war, if in a somewhat academic writing style. The book was interesting but was still was a slog to make it through to the end.
bookshelves: summer-2014, wwi, nonfiction, radio-4, published-2013 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: farmwifetwo Recommended for: Laura, Susanna Read from June 23 to August 05, 2014 Farmwifetwo alerted me to this article.As Caroline so aptly notes in her review, one has to keep abreast of which book ...
This book describes the complex mosaic of history, politics, personalities, relationships, institutions, and ideas that developed and interacted with each other through the 19th century and into the 20th century that then lead to a set of circumstances in Europe that caused the nation’s leaders to s...
According to Wikipedia.org, this book argues that the conditions imposed on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles did not lead to the rise of Adolf Hitler. I read the book back in 2003 so my memory of its contents is a bit hazy, but I don’t remember that point being made by the book. What I do remembe...
I rarely give out five stars--that's deliberate--but this is so illuminating on a complex topic without being dry, I think it deserves full marks. The book treats of "six months that changed the world"--the Paris Peace Conference that produced the Treaty of Versailles. I was taught in high school th...
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