War of the World : Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
by Ferguson, NiallEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2007-10-30
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Summary
What precisely was the Second World War? Was it a triumph of good over evil-a modern morality play running from 1939 to 1945? Or was it something much more ambiguous and protracted? In this brilliant and vivid book, Niall Ferguson redefines World War II as the central act of a fifty-year struggle between rival empires-a colossal confrontation born of economic crisis, ethnic conflict and the inexorable decline of the West. Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, The War of the World is a revolutionary work of reinterpretation from a truly great historian. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of The House of Rothschild and Colossus.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. xiii |
| List of Maps | p. xvi |
| Introduction | p. xxxiii |
| The Great Train Crash | |
| Empires and Races | p. 3 |
| Orient Express | p. 43 |
| Fault Lines | p. 72 |
| The Contagion of War | p. 109 |
| Graves of Nations | p. 141 |
| Empire-States | |
| The Plan | p. 189 |
| Strange Folk | p. 221 |
| An Incidental Empire | p. 277 |
| Defending the Indefensible | p. 312 |
| The Pity of Peace | p. 345 |
| Killing space | |
| Blitzkrieg | p. 385 |
| Through the Looking Glass | p. 416 |
| Killers and Collaborators | p. 439 |
| The Gates of Hell | p. 466 |
| A Tainted Triumph | |
| The Osmosis of War | p. 505 |
| Kaputt | p. 553 |
| Epilogue: The Descent of the West | p. 596 |
| The War of the World in Historical Perspective | p. 647 |
| Endnotes | p. 655 |
| Sources and Bibliography | p. 717 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 765 |
| Index | p. 769 |
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