Uses and Abuses of History

MARGARET MacMILLAN is the renowned author of the international bestsellers The War that Ended Peace, Nixon in China and Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize, and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada. The past provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, she is now the warden of St. Antony's College at Oxford University.

No history lover should fail to digest the lessons of this short but brilliant book. -- Simon Heffer Daily Telegraph A magnificent book, wise and timely Tribune This is history used as its own best argument Toronto Sun Swift and bracing Independent