The Pity of War

Resumen del libro

Niall Ferguson's "The Pity of War: 1914-1918" is a provocative and boldly-conceived history that explodes many of the myths surrounding the First World War. The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: 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? Was there in fact a death wish abroad, driving soldiers to their own destruction? The war, he argues, was a disaster - but not for the reasons we think.

Far worse than a tragedy, it was the greatest error of modern history.

Biografía del autor

P B Niall Ferguson /B ocupa la cátedra Lawrence A Tisch de Historia de la Universidad de Harvard y la cátedra Wiliam Ziegler en la Harvard Business School. Asimismo es profesor del Jesus College, de la Universidad de Oxford, y de la Hoover Institution, de la Universidad de Stanford. Considerado el historiador británico más brillante de la actualidad por el I Times /I y una de las cien personas más influyentes del mundo por la revista I Time /I , entre sus obras destacan I Coloso /I (Debate, 2005), I El Imperio Británico /I (Debate, 2005), I La guerra del mundo /I (Debate, 2007), I El triunfo del dinero /I (Debate, 2010) y I Civilización /I (Debate, 2012).<br>