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.
The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but.
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 American involvement.
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