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Quotes from The Pity of War: Explaining World War I — Niall Ferguson

born 1964 Scotland

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The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable. It was nothing less than the greatest error of modern history.

The Pity of War: Explaining World War I (1998)

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