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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 enthus
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
Release date: 3 March 2000
ISBN-10 : 0465057128 | ISBN-13: 9780465057122
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Darth Brutus's Bigger & Badder Book Diary 2022 (107 books items)"27.11. I don't think this was really that good. Sure, it covered a wide variety of topics from pre-war politics to economy and propaganda, but maybe it went a little too far instead of just focusing on fewer subjects with more depth."
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