Hi Brian, At 13:59 20/12/01 -0500, you wrote: >I'm still trying to figure out the causes of the first world war >never mind how humans behaved thousands of years ago. > >Brian Mcandrews
I recommend "The Pity of War" by Niall Ferguson (Penguin Books, 1999). Almost no praise can be too high for it. Unputdownable, as they say. It occupied my daily dogwalks for weeks. "A formidably clever as well as an impressively industrious historian, Ferguson delights in overturning conventional assumptions." Peter Clarke, Sunday Times. "He has written a terse, cogent and challenging survey of the Great War. He traverses an impressive range with authority and confidence", Brian Holden Reid, The Times Higher Education Supplement. Keith __________________________________________________________ �Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.� John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
