The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I

The Pity Of War: Explaining World War IDescription By Niall Ferguson Paperback From a bestselling 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

Vividly told

Continuing to probe the idea of what it meant to be a military race man—a man concerned with the uplift of the black race who followed the philosophy of progress—Donaldson contrasts the histories of officers Henry Flipper and Charles Young

Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the appalling events of 1914–18

The lithographs' heroic images and patriotic slogans depicted military and civilian effort and sacrifice

this moving and lyrical story

the individual battles fought along the Western Front as well as in-depth coverage of the war in the east of Europe

both relying on “the Myth” as a storytelling device

Again and again

and very American voice makes for compelling reading

John cannot shake his feelings of uneasiness-especially when he learns that his father has just received a letter in the mail

in the old Spanish adage) than the traditional statecraft of European peace-making

who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I