The Pity of War (1914-1918)

Informationen zum Autor 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. His most recent book is The Square and the Tower. Klappentext An incisive, meticulously researched and rigorously argued assessment of the cataclysmic conflict that was the First World War, which explodes many of the myths surrounding it. "...beautifully written, unpretentious in style, and without any special pleading or rancour, it must take a permanent place at the top of the War's historiography" "The Daily Telegraph". Zusammenfassung The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. Was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on fighting when conditions were so wretched? This title deals with questions.

Product details

• Authors: Niall Ferguson
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.03.2009
• EAN: 9780140275230
• ISBN: 978-0-14-027523-0
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 41 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin History; Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; European History, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, c 1910 to c 1919, General and world history, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I