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"The War of the World redefines the Second World War as the central act of an epic fifty-year struggle between rival empires. Far from culminating in the triumph of the West, this struggle was part of an inexorable shift in the global balance of power toward the East. The central question Ferguson poses and answers is why that shift had to be so appallingly violent." "Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics and the cutting-edge interdisciplinary study of human violence, The War of the World is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era."--BOOK JACKET.

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. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, and Colossus, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for British television: Empire, American Colossus, and, most recently, The War of the World.

List of Illustrations

xiii

List of Maps

xvi

Introduction

xxxiii

PART I The Great Train Crash

1 Empires and Races

3

(40)

2 Orient Express

43

(29)

3 Fault Lines

72

(37)

4 The Contagion of War

109

(32)

5 Graves of Nations

141

(48)

PART II Empire-States

6 The Plan

189

(32)

7 Strang Folk

221

(56)

8 An Incidental Empire

277

(35)

9 Defending the Indefensible

312

(33)

10 The Pity of Peace

345

(40)

PART III Killing Space

11 Blitzkrieg

385

(31)

12 Through the Looking Glass

416

(23)

13 Killers and Collaborators

439

(27)

14 The Gates of Hell

466

(39)

PART IV A Tainted Triumph

15 The Osmosis of War

505

(48)

16 Kaputt

553

(43)

Epilogue: The Descent of the West

596

(51)

Appendix: The War of the World in Historical Perspective

647

(8)

Endnotes

655

(62)

Sources and Bibliography

717

(48)

Acknowledgements

765

(4)

Index

769

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The War of the World Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

The War of the World Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

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