Description
In this provocative reinterpretation of the First World War, the conflict is examined through fourteen essays addressing its origins, conduct, and consequences. The analysis explores militarism, alliances, arms races, propaganda, wartime economies, military strategy, and the political choices—especially Britain’s intervention—that transformed a European crisis into a global catastrophe. Drawing on economic history as well as diplomatic and military analysis, the book challenges conventional explanations and considers how financial pressures, national interests, and competing visions of Europe shaped the war and its aftermath. Bold, revisionist, and deliberately controversial, it offers a stimulating reassessment of how the Great War began, was fought, and changed the modern world.
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paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
Published May 25, 2006
672 pages
ISBN: 9780140275230
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First Published
1998
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson.