The War of the World by Niall Ferguson - ISBN: 9780141013824
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A century of false promise, brutality, and war revealed.

The War of the World

History's Age of Hatred

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    816 pages

  • Release Date

    24 April 2012

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Summary

A thrilling narrative about the savage 20th Century

The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. 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 and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the Fi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141013824
ISBN-10:0141013826
Author:Niall Ferguson
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:816
Edition:1st
Release Date:24 April 2012
Weight:576g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 38mm
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Critics Review

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 HastingsA big, bold and brilliantly belligerent book * Sunday Telegraph *History at its most controversial … no one can afford to overlook it – Allan MallinsonHums with energy, quotable insights and pithy summaries * Observer *Gripping – Tristram Hunt

About The Author

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain’s most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968- The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.

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