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Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansing to the politics of imperial decline and fall. The result, as brilliantly written as it is vital, is a great historian's masterwork.

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Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansing to the politics of imperial decline and fall. The result, as brilliantly written as it is vital, is a great historian's masterwork.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780143112396
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/30/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 880
  • Sales rank: 165,748
  • Product dimensions: 5.57 (w) x 8.42 (h) x 1.65 (d)

Meet the Author

Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, and Colossus, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for British television: Empire, American Colossus, and, most recently, The War of the World.

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  • Posted February 14, 2009

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    An Excellent Book

    Ferguson's approach to writing about the horrors of World War II is predominantly statistical. He provides very detailed data relating to virtually every aspect of waging war, i.e. actual tons of war material, numbers of planes, shells, ships, and guns used in various battles.
    At times the reading can be tedious as he painstakingly scours over the names of every geographic city, village, and urban center involved in a battle.However, he opens up drawers that reveal the horror of war not known by most people.
    Most importantly, he attempts to enlighten his readers on the actual decisions that were made, and that many of these decisions put our famed leaders in a bad light. He is a bit hard on the American contribution to the war, and often notes that they tend to take credit for work that was actually accomplished by the British and French. Indeed, at times he almost seems anti-American.
    However, he makes no statements without strict documentation and delivers a clear picture of what actually happened.
    I would think that this book should be on the syllabus for any history course that examines the political and national policies that shaped the 20th century.

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  • Posted February 3, 2010

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    The depths of human depravity are staggering

    I have now read four of Mr. Ferguson's works, the others being Empire, Colossus, and The Ascent of Money, and this one is by far his best work (although, Empire was great too). No other book on WWII has done what this one has done: explained WHY WWII happened and WHY it was so violent. All other books explain HOW WWII transpired, but this one cuts right to the meat of the matter. The results and conclusions are devastating to anyone with a firm belief in humanity's central goodness. Mr. Ferguson shows how every nation involved in the war was also involved in some sort of crime that goes against the idealistic rules of war. Not even America is spared from being tagged with war crimes, as the carpet and fire bombings of civilian culminating in the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki show. This book gives further proof that war, even a necessary war like WWII, is still a blight upon mankind. Any person opposed to war purely on moral and idealistic grounds would do well to read this book and use its analysis and conclusions as a part of their argument. In short, this is a necessary book to be read by anyone interested not just in WWII, but in 20th century history and conflict and in discovering the true depths of human depravity, which are, to judge from Mr. Ferguson's work, staggering. Not only that, but certain parallels to today's world should make everyone concerned about the potentials of a "Second War of the World."

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 26, 2007

    Greed and Fear, Midwives to Human Violence

    Niall Ferguson convincingly demonstrates in ¿The War of the World¿ why the 20th century, especially the fifty years from 1904 until 1953, was the bloodiest of all. Ferguson attributes the extreme violence of the 20th century to three factors: 1) ethnic conflict, specifically the breakdown of the assimilation process, 2) economic volatility, and 3) the decline of Empires. Think for example about the organized violence that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union unleashed against anyone who was perceived as ¿undesirable.¿ Ferguson does not mention technology changes among these three factors. There was no correlation over the 20th century between weapons¿ destructiveness and the occurrence of violence. Think for example about the genocide in Rwanda which was predominantly a low-tech conflict. Paradoxically, this exceptionally violent century went hand in hand with unparalleled progress in the scientific, economic, political, and social domains. Perhaps more importantly, ¿The War of the World¿ casts a long shadow on the increasingly difficult coexistence of Shia and Sunni populations in the Middle East without mentioning non-Islamic minorities living in their midst. Ethnic conflicts, economic volatility, and the decline of the traditional power structures in the Near East represent some striking similarities to what happened in the first half of the 20th century in Europe. The religious conflict raging in the Middle East, especially in both Lebanon and Iraq, cannot be understood without considering the unbalanced distribution of wealth and power between Shias and Sunnis. Can the main players active in the Near East learn something from the past horrors that Ferguson describes in detail before a major realignment of populations becomes inevitable?

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