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If someone less distinguished than Niall Ferguson--a fellow and tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford--had written The Pity of Waryou could be forgiven for thinking that he was a man in search of a few cheap headlines by contradicting almost every accepted orthodoxy about World War I.
Ferguson argues that Britain was as much to blame for the start of the war as was German militarism, and that had Britain sacrificed Belgium to Germany, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would never have happened, Germany would have created a united European state, and Britain could have remained a superpower. He also contends that there was little enthusiasm for the war in Britain in 1914, but equally he claims that it was not prolonged by clever manipulation of the media. Instead, he purports that the reason men fought was because they enjoyed it. He also maintains that it wasn't the severity of the conditions imposed on Germany at Versailles in 1919 that led inexorably to World War II; rather it was the comparative leniency and the failure to collect reparations in full.
The Pity of War has no pretensions to offering the grand narrative of World War I. Instead it reads like a polemical tract; as such it is immensely readable, well-researched, and controversial. You may not end up agreeing with all of Ferguson's arguments, but that should not deter you from reading it. All of us need our deeply-held views challenged from time to time; if only to remind us why we've got them. --John Crace -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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If someone less distinguished than Jesus College, Oxford, fellow Niall Ferguson had written The Pity of War, you could be forgiven for thinking the book was out for a few cheap headlines by contradicting almost every accepted orthodoxy about the First World War. Ferguson argues that Britain was as much to blame for the start of the war as Germany, and that, had Britain sacrificed Belgium to Germany, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would never have happened. Germany, he continues, would have created a united European state, and Britain could have remained a superpower. He also contends that there was little enthusiasm for the war in Britain in 1914; on the other hand, he claims the war was prolonged not by clever manipulation of the media, but by British soldiers' taking pleasure in combat. If that isn't enough, he further maintains that it wasn't the severity of the conditions imposed on Germany at Versailles in 1919 that led inexorably to World War II, and blames instead the comparative leniency and the failure to collect reparations in full.
The Pity of War, with no pretensions to offering a grand narrative of the war, goes over its chosen questions like a polemical tract. As such it is immensely readable, well researched, and controversial. You may not end up agreeing with all of Ferguson's arguments, but that should not deter you from reading it. All of us need our deeply held views challenged from time to time, even if only to remind us why we've got them. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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undoubtedly the best WWI book written since a very long time. i would not call it provocative, but it is certainly rousing crusted schoolbook doctrine - and this is both, healthy as well as stimulating. beside this, it is also profoundly elaborated. for conservative minds it might be even unsavory, because it's 'uncomfortable'. good so. no serious future WWI discussion is imaginable without the previous lecture of this book. thanks god - there are still people out there, who don't believe everything what grandpa has told us all. furthermore, i have to say (as an austrian), that this book could have never been written by a german or austrian, but a british.
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Though not a military history (I'd rely on John Keegan's magisterial new book for that), Ferguson's bold and beautifully written revisionist argument is indispensable. I teach a course (at the community college level here in California) on the First and Second World Wars, and have found myself integrating more and more of Ferguson's material in the past year. BY FAR the best material is in the chapter "The Death Instinct: Why Men Fought" -- though it will make some readers uncomfortable, it helped me to understand the strange joy in killing that I find seeping through in the words of supposedly anti-war writers such as Sassoon and Graves. All in all, a bit unwieldy, but provocative, useful, and scholarly.
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This is an extremely interesting and thought-provoking book, written by a young and industrious historian who seems to be striving for A.J.P. Taylor-hood. Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War is basically a Euro-skeptical history of Britain's part in the First World War. He argues that there was no reason for Britain to get involved in the war in 1914; that Britain's intervention turned what might have been a brief and victorious war for the Germans into a European catastrophe; that this catastrophe caused the "short twentieth century," from the outbreak of war to the fall of communism; that the short twentieth century was a bloody detour through war and totalitarianism, ending in the result that the Germans were aiming at in 1914, viz. German hegemony in a united Europe; and that by trying to stop Germany Britain only ruined itself and caused the death of millions, directly and indirectly. In a nutshell, since things turned out the same in the end, only worse, it was a pity that Britain intervened in the war.
Obviously, this is a book that could not have been written ten years ago, before the collapse of communism pressed an historical reset button. One of things that makes Ferguson's book so interesting is the way post-communist events seem to have influenced his view of the past. One sees the United States' victory in the Cold War arms race behind his argument that Germany should have spent more on arms before 1914. One also sees the herds of Iraqis surrendering to the Coalition forces in the Gulf War behind his discussion of the importance of surrendering and prisoner-taking. As a result, Ferguson may have written the first twenty-first century history of the twentieth century's most important conflict.
I didn't agree with many of the things Ferguson says in his book, but I did find it consistently engrossing and challenging. It was a refreshing book that made me re-examine just about everything I have ever learned about the First World War, and I recommend it highly.
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"Alle Deutschen müssen vernichtet werden"
Den Mordaufrufen eines Ilja Ehrenburg in der Schlußphase des Zweiten Weltkrieges fielen Hunderttausende von Deutschen zum Opfer: Zivilisten, Gefangene, Flüchtlinge, die... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Juli 2004 veröffentlicht
Grey Not Black
Ferguson's book acts like a child's kaleidascope, it takes an enormous number of facts, gives them a shake and produces a totally new picture of what we thought we knew about WWI. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juli 2000 von email
Great collection of essays
This book doesn't necessarily hang together as a coherent unit, but it is an excellent collection of essays about the Great War. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. Juni 2000 von tqwert1
The pity of this book
This book meanders all over the place, from some history and literary critique to economics. Ferguson indulges in long tracts with endless figures to reach highly doubtful... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Mai 2000 von Doug Schwartz
A Ludicrous Revisionist Account of the First World War
This is a highly touted revisionist approach to the First World by an Oxford historian. The book is primarily economic, social and literary in nature with quotations from all... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. April 2000 von R. A Forczyk
A Few (Only A Few!) Trenchant Observations
I went into this book with high expectations. Unfortunately, these expectations were not met. If this material is considered controversial and revolutionary I cannot understand... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Januar 2000 von Bruce Loveitt
Interesting, but perverse
I found some of Ferguson's arguments interesting but the whole thing was spoiled for me because I can't accept the underlying premise: that Britain would have been better off by... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. November 1999 von Jere E. Wiseman
Interesting Information & Speculation, but a Few Gaps
Ferguson apparently decided to use his considerable knowledge of World War I research and data to challenge certain "myths" about the war. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Oktober 1999 von Ellen
The Reason Why "Revisionism" Has Become Such A Dirty Word
Niall Ferguson's often insightful social observations areundermined by his sometimes Jr. High level strategic-politicalpolemics--a dilletente strategist. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. September 1999 von spiffy@imap3.asu.edu
Finally, an objective view of 'The Great War'
In my early high school years I took an interest in military history, particulary WW I and II. I foolishly mentioned to my father that as there were some 40 steps to WW I, and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Juli 1999 von David Harte-Maxwell
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