Margaret MacMillan Audio & Video

Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity.

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Paris 1919" comes a landmark book about Nixon, Mao, and the historic meeting that changed history.

Between January and July 1919 delegates from all over the world converged on Paris to forge a lasting peace in the wake of World War I.

Margaret MacMillan joined Book TV to talk about her life and work. Ms. MacMillan is the Provost of the University of Trinity College, University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan’s best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world.

In Dangerous Games, Margaret MacMillan illustrates how history should never be presented as a series of facts, but instead as a framing device for understanding the past....

Margaret MacMillan was interviewed about her book Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World, published by Random House.

The First World War is not called the Great War for nothing. It was the single most decisive event in modern history, as well as one of the bloodiest: by the time the war ended, some nine million soldiers had been killed.

Margaret MacMillan talked about her historical narrative, "The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914", in which she describes in detail the assassination in 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and why his death led to the outbreak of World War I.