Niall Ferguson`s ” The War of the World: History`s Age of Hatred” re-tells the story of history`s most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. At the beginning of the twentieth century, globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening & brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War & the end of the Cold War. What turned it into a bloodbath? From the plains of Poland to the killing fields of Cambodia, Niall Ferguson reveals how economic boom-&-bust, decaying empires &
- above all
- poisonous ideas of race led men to treat each other as aliens. It was an age of hatred that ended with the twilight, not the triumph, of the West. &, he warns, it could happen all over again. ”A heartbreaking, serious & thoughtful survey of human evil that is utterly fascinating & dramatic”. (Simon Sebag Montefiore, ” The New York Times”). ” Unputdownable, controversial, compelling”. (” Independent on Sunday”).”A big, bold & brilliantly belligerent book”. (” Sunday Telegraph”). ” Hums with energy, "able insights & pithy summaries”. (” Observer”). ” Gripping”. (Tristram Hunt). Niall Ferguson is one of Britain`s most renowned historians. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford & a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of ” Paper & Iron”, ” The House of Rothschild”, ” The Pity of War”, ” The Cash Nexus”, ” Empire”, ” Colossus”, ” The War of the World” & ” The Ascent of Money”.