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The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred
The War of the World
History’s Age of Hatred
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Epilogue: The Descent of the West
Appendix: The War of the World in Historical Perspective
Section 1: 1900–1928
1
. ‘Racial Map of Europe’ (1923).
2
. ‘The Yellow Peril’: drawing of 1895 by Hermann Knackfuss.
3
. European soldiers captured at the Battle of Yang-Cun are brought before the Boxer generals.
4
. ‘
Bon appetit!
’: German cartoon of March 1904.
5
. Pogrom victims and survivors, Odessa 1905.
6
. The Archduke Francis Ferdinand meets Bosnian dignitaries in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914.
7
. Gavrilo Princip and the other members of ‘Young Bosnia’ in court in Sarajevo.
8
. Two soldiers from France’s West African colonies during the First World War.
9
. Scottish prisoners of war, First World War.
10
. Russian cartoon of the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, 1917–18.
11
. An anti-Semitic caricature of Trotsky from the Russian Civil War era.
12
. The waterfront at Danzig (Gdańsk).
13
. The bodies of Armenian children, Turkey 1915.
14
. Rudolf Schlichter,
Armenian Horrors
, watercolour on paper
c.
1920.
15
. Greek refugees throng the docks at Smyrna, fleeing from Turkish troops, September 1922.
16
. Georg Grosz’s
Grosstadt
(1917).
17
. Poverty in the American Depression.
18
. ‘Look, you boob… !’: George Bernard Shaw on the superiority of Soviet Communism.
19
. Soviet industrialization poster.
20
. Ukrainian collectivization poster.
21
. Georgian poster on self-determination.
22
. Gulag prisoners.
23
. Jacob Abter, one of the members of the Leningrad Society for the Deaf and Dumb executed during the Great Terror.
24
. An ethnic German family takes a break from harvest toil.
25
. Illustration from a children’s book published by the Stürmer Ver-lag in 1935.
26
. Victor Klemperer.
27
. Isaiah Berlin’s diplomatic pass, issued on September 15, 1945.
28
. Hershel and Rivka Elenberg.
29
. Henryka Lappo before deportation from eastern Poland to the Soviet Union.
30
. A Nazi wartime poster blaming atrocities on ‘Jewish-Bolshevism’.
31
. Five Jewish women and girls about to be shot outside Liebau, in Latvia, in December 1941.
32
. Victims of the Rape of Nanking.
33
. A man tends children wounded in a Japanese raid on Shanghai railway station, 1937.
34
. and
35
. Marja and Czeslawa Krajewski, murdered in medical experiments at Auschwitz in 1943.
36
. The Axis powers as aliens: American wartime poster.
37
. Tatars in the Red Army.
38
. A German soldier in the wake of the Battle of Kursk in July 1943.
39
. Nazi poster for Dutch consumption.
40
. The destruction of Dresden in February 1945.
41
. The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
’s caricature ‘Mr Moto’.
42
. Phoenix war worker Natalie Nickerson with a Japanese soldier’s skull.
43
. Two American tanks advance under Japanese fire during the Battle for Okinawa, June 1945.
44
. A Japanese naval lieutenant is persuaded to lay down his arms on Okinawa.
45
. A Soviet soldier tries to steal a Berlin woman’s bike.
46
. Soldiers training in Guatemala to fight the Guerrilla Army of the Poor.
47
. Chinese children read from Chairman Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’.
48
. Pol Pot greets Deng Xiaoping in Phnom Penh in 1978.
49
. Milan Lukić in his home town of Višegrad in 1992.
Picture 1; taken from
Source Records of the Great War
, Vol. VII (1928)
Pictures 2–6, 10, 12, 14, 37, 48: AKG images, London
Pictures 7, 13, 15, 40, 43, 44, 46, 47: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Picture 16: © DACS 2006 (supplied by Bridgeman Art Library)
Picture 21: The David King Collection
Pictures 25, 30: Mary Evans Picture Library
Pictures 26, 38, 49: Empics
Picture 27: Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust. Copyright © Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust
Picture 28: Ty Rogers
Picture 29: Mrs H. Lappo
Picture 33: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis
Pictures 34, 35: Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial
Picture 42: Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Picture 45: Ullstein Bild
Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders, but this has not been possible in all cases. If notified, the publishers will be pleased to rectify any omissions at the earliest opportunity.
Map 1
. The Jewish Pale of Settlement
Map 2
. Austria-Hungary before the First World War
Map 3
. The German diaspora in the 1920s
Map 4.
Political boundaries after the Paris peace treaties,
c
. 1924
Map 5
. The Asian empires in autumn 1941
Map 6
. Manchuria and Korea
Map 7
. The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941–45
Map 8
. The Nazi Empire at its maximum extent, autumn 1942
Map 9
. The Pale of Settlement and the Holocaust
Map 10
. Germany partitioned, 1945
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‘Quite stunning’
The Times Literary Supplement
‘Full of epigrams, witticisms and thought-provoking paradoxes and ironies… supremely readable and thought-provoking’ Andrew Roberts
‘This is Ferguson’s best work, by far, since
The Pity of War
’ Paul Kennedy,
New York Review of Books
‘Delivered with immense brio and pace… so easy to zip through’
Spectator
‘Entertainingly provocative… He is a fine debunker’
Economist
‘A great read… One is swept along by the author’s superb clarity of expression and the persuasive verve of his style’
Irish Times
‘A gripping read’
Scotland on Sunday
‘A thoughtful, often provocative, portrait of the period… an historian who can rattle cosy assumptions’
The Times
‘Without doubt, this is Ferguson’s best work to date… one of the most revolutionary reinterpretations of this era’
Tribune
‘A sweeping and handsomely controlled narrative in which he balances wide-screen storytelling and close-focus anecdote… Even those who have read widely in twentieth-century history will find fresh, surprising details’
Boston Globe
‘Again he shows himself to be a writer of extraordinary energy and versatility’ Norman Stone,
Wall Street Journal
‘Wielding at once the encyclopedic knowledge of an accomplished scholar and the engaging prose of a master storyteller, Ferguson commendably brings fresh insights to a history by now familiar’
San Francisco Chronicle
‘A staggering achievement. Written in clear, lively prose, it asks to be savoured, enjoyed and argued with’
Sunday Morning Post
(South China)
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain’s most renowned historians. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of
Paper and Iron
,
The House of Rothschild
,
The Pity of War
,
The Cash Nexus
,
Empire
and
Colossus
, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for Channel Four:
Empire
,
American Colossus
and, most recently,
The War of the World
. He, his wife and three children divide their time between the United Kingdom and the United States.
for
Felix,
Freya,
Lachlan
and
Susan
Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague,
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.Romeo and Juliet
, V.iii
A Note on Transliteration and Other Linguistic ConventionsWhat is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
UnrealThe Waste Land
, V
There are at least seven different systems for the transliteration of Mandarin Chinese into Roman characters. Broadly speaking, the English-speaking world switched from one system (Wade-Giles) to another (Hanyu Pinyin) towards the end of the period covered by this book, partly in response to its official adoption by the People’s Republic of China and the International Organization for Standardization. Thus, to take perhaps the most obvious example, Peking became Beijing.