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The War of the World by Niall Ferguson just astounding, almost every page has some obscure detail of some event in some war that the west was ever involved with from 1900 to 1999, so huge an undertaking surely you would need a team of researchers buckets of coffee and mountains of cupcakes. No western nation is left out Americans British French Germans Russians are all well covered but far more indepth examinations of the Germans and Russians with whole sections outlined. Other smaller western nations are briefly mentioned. Clearly facts told then all these nations are all guilty of some horrendous war atrocity just curiously numbers killed escalates the further east you travel. The connections and relationships between these events and underlying inhumanity bound them all together in what all participants believe is right and justified killings when you put on fish bowl glasses this absolutely ridiculous and mental really. Humans can fall into hatred and murderous warfare so quickly we are a menace to ourselves without a doubt. Is there any hope in the 21st century with nuclear annihilation but greater seriousness is nations nuclear proliferation 24 nations and counting this hanging like a noose around our necks let's go with hope but hopelessness is a hair width behind. We really don't need mountains of wealth just mountains of purpose look after each other start in your house then spread out. Anyway after these statements I need to find sand so I can bury my head in it. Tidbits When did the War of the World end? Perhaps the best answer is July 27, 1953, when the armistice was signed that ended the Korean War. Why did that conflict peter out, rather than escalate into a global conflict between the superpowers? One tempting explanation is that the exponential increase in destructive power that began with the first atomic test raised the stakes too high to permit a full-scale conflict. Tidbits How can you make a revolution without firing squads?’ Lenin asked. ‘If we can’t shoot a White Guard saboteur, what sort of great revolution is it? Nothing but talk and a bowl of mush. Tidbit No one can know the future, least of all, a historian, whose business is the past.
