Margaret MacMillan is an eminent historian, whose Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2002, also published as Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World) brought her fame. She is Warden of St. Antony’s College and a professor of international history at the University of Oxford.

MacMillan is an expert in the field of international relations, and has a keen eye for historical tensions accompanying the watershed of any two eras, particularly for those surrounding the First World War. In 2008, her book The Uses and Abuses of History appeared.

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