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From: The New Leader | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: Weber, Eugen | Copyright information

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World By Margaret MacMillan Random. 560 pp. $35.00.

FOR OVER FOUR years beginning in August 1914, soldiers, sailors and airmen from all quarters fueled a world conflict, especially the fires that blazed in Europe. They came from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, Japan, Brazil, and the United States, not to mention the Chinese laborers in the trenches of the Western Front. Millions died in action. The most s...

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