Margaret MacMillan wins at the Political Book Awards

Professor Margaret MacMillan has won International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards, for The War That Ended Peace.

The International Affairs Book of the Year Award was awarded to the author of a book which had most comprehensively addressed the international issues of any region, whether these be the topics already dominating the agenda or those lesser known. The book was required to have addressed its subject in an accessible format, and brought to wider attention the issues under discussion. It should be a valuable contribution to the current body of literature on international affairs.

Margaret MacMillan is the author of Women of the Raj and international bestsellers Nixon in China and Peacemakers: The Paris Conference 1919. She won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize for Peacemakers. The past Provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, she is now the Warden of St. Antony's College at Oxford University.

In The War That Ended Peace, MacMillan uncovers the huge political and technological changes, national decisions and small moments of human muddle and weakness that led Europe from peace to disaster in the path toward WWI.