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Niall Ferguson - The War of The World (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilisation at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalised and wealthy.
What turned it into a bloodbath?
Niall Ferguson re-tells the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. From the plains of Poland to the killing fields of Cambodia, he reveals how economic boom-and-bust, decaying empires and, above all, poisonous ideas of race led men to treat each other as aliens.
Bold themes and vivid detail mark this sweeping history of armed violence in the twentieth century. Ferguson seeks answers for why that era - particularly the years between 1904 and 1953 - was the bloodiest in history. He argues that explanations focusing on changes in technologies of war, the rise of the modern industrial state, or clashing ideologies are not sufficient to account for the location and timing of upheavals of extreme violence.
Instead, he points to the convulsive mix of ethnic violence, economic volatility, and declining European empires and places World War II in the context of a "50-Year War" that began in 1904 with the Japanese war against Russia and ended with the Korean War and the extension of the Iron Curtain to the East.
It was an age of hatred that ended with the twilight, not the triumph, of the West and he shows, it could happen all over again.
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- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - War & Civil War
- Published : 2006 (Penguin)
- ISBN : 9780141013824
- SKU : B000035
- RRP : £9.99
- PPC : SP400gm
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External Reviews
'A heartbreaking, serious and thoughtful survey of human evil that is utterly fascinating and dramatic' - Simon Sebag Montefiore - The New York Times.
'Unputdownable, controversial, compelling' Independent on Sunday' The grenade lobbed into the cosy tea party of received wisdom' - Max Hastings.
'A big, bold and brilliantly belligerent book' - Sunday Telegraph.
'History at its most controversial . . . no one can afford to overlook it' - Allan Mallinson.
The Author
Niall Campbell Ferguson (born 18 April 1964) is a Scottish historian and the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is miles better than Neil Oliver.
Featured Author . . . Niall Ferguson