The Pity of War
  • Published: 22 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9780140275230
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $35.00
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The Pity of War

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The controversial revisionist history of World War I that made Ferguson's name

The controversial revisionist history of World War I that made Niall Ferguson's name

The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. More than any other event, it made the twentieth century. In this boldly conceived book and provocative, aimed to appeal not only to students but also to the general reader, Niall Ferguson explodes many of the myths surrounding the war.

Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the Stern School of Business, New York University, Visiting Professor of History, Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford. His other books for Penguin include Empire, The Cash Nexus, Colossus, The War of the World, Virtual History, High Financier and Civilization.
  • Published: 22 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9780140275230
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is a 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 Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus and, most recently, The War of the World. He, his wife and three children divide their time between the United Kingdom and the United States.

Also by Niall Ferguson

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
The Square and the Tower
The Ascent of Money
Kissinger
The Cash Nexus
The Great Degeneration
Civilization
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Praise for The Pity of War

The most challenging and provocative analysis of the First World War to date

Ian Kershaw

Must take a permanent place at the top of the War's historiography. It is one of the very few books whose own scale matches that of the events it describes

Alan Clark, Daily Telegraph

Brilliant and stimulating ... radical, readable and convincing

The Times

Possibly the most important book to appear in years both on the origins of the First World War ... Ferguson can confidently claim to have inherited A. J. P. Taylor's mantle

Paul Kennedy, New York Review of Books

At one massive stroke, Niall Ferguson has transformed the intellectual landscape

Economist
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