The war of the world twentieth-century conflict and the descent of the West
Historian Fergusson provides a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. From the conflicts that presaged the First World...
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Penguin Press
2006
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Table of Contents:
- I: The great train crash
- Empires and races
- Orient express
- Fault lines
- The contagion of war
- Graves of nations
- II: Empire-states
- The plan
- Strange folk
- An incidental empire
- Defending the indefensible
- The pity of peace
- III: Killing space
- Blitzkrieg
- Through the looking glass
- Killers and collaborators
- The gates of hell
- IV: A tainted triumph
- The osmosis of war
- Kaputt
- The descent of the west.