Niall Ferguson

The Pity of War

Historical analysis of World War I's causes, conduct, and human costs

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Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson

Scottish historian whose revisionist accounts of the British Empire, the Great War, and American power have been widely read and widely contested. The Pity of War argued that British entry into World War I was a catastrophic mistake. The Square and the Tower examined network structures in history.

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