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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Niall Ferguson

 
     
  Tuesday, September 26, 2006

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The twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before—eating better, growing taller, and living longer?
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