The Pity of War: Explaining World War I

From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I.

“A rich and provocative book, evocative and heartbreaking.” - Atlantic

The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, necessitating American involv...