The War of the WorldBy: Niall Ferguson The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath? Niall Ferguson re tells the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. From the plains of Poland to the killing fields of Cambodia, he reveals how economic boom and bust, decaying empires and, above all, poisonous ideas of race led men