The War of the World
by Niall Ferguson
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Author: Niall FergusonEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 0143112392
Number of pages: 880
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Typical liberal view of history
Summary: 1 Stars
Ferguson should move to an island where he can set up his utopia of fair war since the USA is such a vile place.
I'm glad we bombed Hiroshima, Dresden and couldn't give a wit's care about what we did.
Ferguson couldn't hold the chin strap of one of the Rangers that went over the cliffs at Point Du Hoc nor any of the thousands of B-17 crews that never made it to Dresden.
War is hell, Mr. Ferguson but we didn't start it and we sure as heck found a way to end it sooner.
In Mr. Ferguson's world, we should have stopped bombing and sacrificed another 100,000 on the beaches and rice paddies of Japan just to satisfy the "fairness" of our tactics.
It is this revisionist thinking that is the primary reason that we home-school and will continue to refer to that group of young soldiers, airmen, rivet-drivers and victory garden growers as the "The GREATEST GENERATION."
Summary of The War of the World
Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson?s numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history?s bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansing to the politics of imperial decline and fall. The result, as brilliantly written as it is vital, is a great historian?s masterwork.Military Books
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