
The Pity of War
Explaining World War I
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Narrado por:
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Graeme Malcolm
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Niall Ferguson
From a best-selling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I
The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather was the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces.
That the war was wicked, horrific, and inhuman is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. Indeed, more British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with little reluctance and with some enthusiasm. For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper or more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.
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One tip I would give for people who have a hard time comprehending what they read. Read the conclusion chapter first. Each of the chapters in the book focuses on a specific question. The concluding chapter provides a 1-2 paragraph summary of each of the chapters that is nice to read. He goes into lots of details in each chapter to make his case, so sometimes you can get a little lost.
All around, definitely a top 5 book to read on WW1 if you want to get into the nuances of events and not just regurgitate the ‘facts’.
Thought provoking.
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The economic, social, and cultural examinations, were particularly surprising, and engaging.
The author succeeded in overcoming the common temptation of coloring WWI with the subsequent WW II, making the space for a clearer analysis of cause and effects.
Thank you, Niall Ferguson, for a great book.
Fresh insights and obliterating old assumptions
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Author Niall Fergusson methodically dispells the most common myths cited about the war and questions whether, as it seemed to those alive at the time, the first European conflagration of the 1900s WAS in fact "inevitable" coming to the conclusion that: "No, war was not *inevitable*, BUT...".
Through his analysis of the biographical, domestic/geo-political, economic, personal sentiment (from the lowliest private to the kings and prime ministers themselves), conduct and the aftermath of WW1, Fergusson concludes that besides the United States, the First World War was an unnecessary catastrophe that left every combatant nation worse off than they had been previous to the war- setting Europe back at least several decades.
As the quintessential historian on the life and work of one Georgian man (Ioseb Djhugashvilli) Stephen Kotkin likes to say, "war is usually a miscalculation", and no more obvious example can be found than the paranoid, capricious, and self-serving calculations made by the European leaders that sleep-walked their armies into the worst war since the fall of Rome in 476 A.D., and important lessons for the present and future are plentiful in this definitive work.
Required Reading for All Students of History.
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Elegant Narrative - Answers to Compelling Questions
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Exhaustive
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The book provides a full analysis of the war, its causes and consequences. Sometimes, as in most of Ferguson writings, it gets too detailed and perhaps more useful for historians.
Anyhow the book has a great storyline and a masterpiece final chapter of conclusions.
Great analysis
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Ferguson wouldn’t know history if it hit him in the head
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muy aburrido
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