The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Categories: History
Niall Ferguson's 2006 history of the violence of the twentieth century, arguing that ethnic conflict, economic volatility and declining empires drove its world wars and genocides (published in the UK as The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred; Penguin Press, 2006).
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- Richard Branson: “Just finished reading The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred, by historian Niall Ferguson.”