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Article: Niall's saga.(The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West)(Book review)
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- September 25, 2006
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, by Niall Ferguson (Penguin, 880 pp., $35)
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NIALL FERGUSON's ponderous volume accompanies a TV series and is heavily punctuated by maps and statistical tables. Covering the 20th century, it starts in 1904 when, for the first time, an Asian power (Japan) defeated a European (really Eurasian) one (Russia); and it concludes by arguing that the real loser in the century was the West, and the real winner Asia, or more specifically the two population giants, India and China. The book also seeks to analyze the horrific record of violence during the century and ...