- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (6 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141022205
- ISBN-13: 978-0141022208
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 372,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. One of Penguin's bestselling non-fiction authors, Niall Ferguson has been hailed as the most brilliant historian of his generation for his fresh, provocative and controversial approach to subjects ranging from money to empires. The Last Days of Mankind has been specially selected and adapted from Ferguson's bestselling The Pity of War (1998), a radical reassessment of the First World War that exploded many myths surrounding the conflict.
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Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the Stern School of Business, New York University, Visiting Professor of History, Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford. His other books for Penguin are The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World and Colossus. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and three children.
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Format:Paperback
Buy this little book instead of the book from which it taken - "The Pity of war" it gives a much better introduction to the causes of the first world war and the information is easier to extract than Nial Ferguson's opus( The Pity of War) An evening spent reading this book will give a much better insight into the crass stupidity of the ruling classes that lead to the flower of the World's youth being slaughtered on the altar of greed and avarice, than does The Pity of War.
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A very concise overview as to exactly the First World War started; I always knew it was to do with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand but, not exactly how and why!
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