The Pity of War

In his highly acclaimed book, Niall Ferguson explodes many of the myths about the first world war. It must take a permanent place at the top of the Wars historiography. It is one of the very few books whose own scale matches that of the events it describes... Ferguson is lucid and compelling... It ranks with A. J. P. Taylors Origins of the Second World War. Daily Telegraph The book, whose title is taken from Wilfred Owens haunting poem Strange Meeting, turns upside down almost every single preconception we have about the Great War... by turns stimulating and infuriating... thought-provoking. Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday