Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new a...
Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansing to the politics of imperial decline and fall. The result, as brilliantly written as it is vital, is a great historian's masterwork.
Stalin deserves his reputation as one of the most paranoid, untrusting individuals in modern history. The supreme irony is, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once observed, the Soviet dictator only ever trusted one man. Unfortunately, that man was the most unscrupulous liar in history. (查看原文)
哈佛历史学教授Niall Ferguson最近又是推出新著，又是在《外交》杂志上撰文，忙着向政策圈和公众解释他所预见的第三次世界大战的可能性。Ferguson新书《The War of the World》的主要论题有二。一是亚洲国家在20世纪逐渐崛起，尽管欧美国家仍然是主导势力。二是中东，尤其是伊...
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0 有用 形而上生物学 2013-06-24 00:50:46
本来对这种战争史只参考一本书的著作就觉得蛋疼，看了豆瓣书评后，更加确认了，三星不能再多。
0 有用 形而上生物学 2013-06-24 00:50:46
本来对这种战争史只参考一本书的著作就觉得蛋疼，看了豆瓣书评后，更加确认了，三星不能再多。