Margaret Macmillan is this year's recipient of the 91Èȱ¬ Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the first woman ever to win it.
The winning book is called Peacemakers which challenges the conventional view that the Paris peace conference of 1919 paved the way for the rise of Hitler and the Second World War. The award ceremony will be repeated on 91Èȱ¬ Four on Sunday 30 June 12.20am-1.20am Peacemakers, Margaret Macmillan, John Murray; ISBN: 0719562333, £15.99