num_pages: 56
description: One of Penguin's bestselling non-fiction authors, Niall Ferguson has been hailed as the most brilliant historian of his generation for his fresh, provocative and controversial approach to subjects ranging from money to empires. This extract has been specially selected and adapted from Ferguson's bestselling The Pity of War (1998), a radical reassessment of the First World War that exploded many myths surrounding the conflict.
language: English
title: 1914: Why the World Went to War
titlecomplete: 1914: Why the World Went to War
genres: History, World War I, War, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 74
publisher: Penguin UK