Beskrivning
Beskrivning
The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europedry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrificeworth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were theGermans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greetedwith popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on fighting when conditionswere so wretched? Was there in fact a death wish abroad, drivingsoldiers 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 thegreatest error of modern history.’The most challenging and provocative analysis of the First World War to date’Ian Kershaw ’Must take apermanent place at the top of the War’s historiography. It is one of thevery few books whose own scale matches that of the events it describes’ Alan Clark, Daily Telegraph’Possibly the most importantbook to appear in years both on the origins of the First World War …Ferguson can confidently claim to have inherited A. J. P. Taylor’smantle’Paul Kennedy, New York Review of Books’At one massive stroke, Niall Ferguson has transformed the intellectual landscape’Economist
