O autor tem suas teses. São boas, não dão a explicação total dos eventos. Ele se concentra nas questões etnicas, que teve um peso forte em todo o mundo. Mas nunca se abre para questões de valores, cultura e espírito.

Niall Ferguson has a genius for making sense of the complex and presenting the story of a history in a way that makes the present and the future clear and understandable. Not an easy read -especially when confronted by the evils that humans are capable of- but a very worthwhile read.

17/20

Outstanding

Excelent

you have to be quite enthusiastic about mankind in order not to become a misanthrop after reading this book.

Prefixed by a strange rant about race but from then on it's completely engrossing. Seamlessly covers the wars and their aftermath. Nothing is sanitised, unless you're a psychopath, this will be a hard and depressing read.

4.5/5

Masterpiece

Finally calling it quits after 4 years vaguely assuming I’d finish this book one day. It’s not gonna happen.

If you want to get factual basis of world's biggest wars then go for this book.

Excelente libro, si pudiese le colocaría mejor calificación. Casi siempre se pinta la historia en términos de héroes y villanos, Ferguson se aparta de esta interpretación y muestra molestas similitudes entre los buenos de la historia y los villanos.