War Of The World

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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"."