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The War of the World 1914–1989

Niall Ferguson

Hay Festival 2006, Saturday 3 June 2006

The twentieth century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history, with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. What went wrong? Chaired by Hamish Mykura.