M. MacMillan. Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, Random House, 2002.

Margaret McMillan's book is a propaganda rag in support of neocon policies of redrawing the map of the world with the superior US air power. As is usual with neocons, who, not altogether without foundation, disdain the ability of recipients of their agitprop to think, the purpose of the book is revealed in the preface by late Richard Holbrooke, the preeminent and the most successful practitioner of neoconnery.

The book proffers a revisionist theory that the architects of Versaille system were not the wreckers of everything, which remained in the wake of the World War I ultimately responsible for the extremist direction of public policy in the defeated nations, but the benefactors of humanity. The arguments cannot be rendered here without diminishing reader's IQ by a significant bit. The book was published in 2002 when it seemed that US colonial wars would lead to the new millennium of American domination of the world. Then even such moderate as David Gergen proclaimed on CNN that we need to get into Iraq sooner rather then later to finish with it sooner, so that we can start war against Iran quicker. Now this (and the precepts of the Lady McMillan's books) look as madness but these were the times, "now very far away" when Anglo-American elite was totally under the spell of the magic thinking of the neocons.