The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Niall Ferguson, Joanne J. Myers
Tuesday, September 26, 2006Get the Flash Player to see this player.
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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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