The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred

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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 First World War and the end of the Cold War. What went wrong How did we do this to ourselves The War of the World comes up with compelling, fascinating answers. It is Niall Ferguson's masterpiece.

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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 Hastings
A big, bold and brilliantly belligerent book * Sunday Telegraph *
History at its most controversial ... no one can afford to overlook it -- Allan Mallinson
Hums with energy, quotable insights and pithy summaries * Observer *
Gripping -- Tristram Hunt

Author Bio

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.