Niall Ferguson is a very serious writer that writes very long history oops that are impossible to read al the way through. His book "War Of The World" questions the presumed assumptions of the narrative of World War II as a clash of European empires and a triumph of the West.
In actuality this was the beginning of the end for large multiethnic empires according to Ferguson. there was a massive transfer of power as these empires died and it is this the transfer of global power from West to East that is the result of these two struggles that killed so many millions. This massive history book explores how nationalism helped rock the European empires in the first World War and lead up to the stage for the Second World War which would ruin European power throughout the world in this suicidal conflict between European nations and the attempt to slow down the first Asian power positioning its way to the role of Pacific leader. Ferguson wonders why these wars committed so many atrocities against civilian populations incomparable in the past conflicts and the obvious answers I think are really not explored. The rise of human population and the global dominance of trade and markets instilled a need and more ruthless method for destruction as war replaced compromise solutions. 
Technological improvements also enabled which is a large explanation of Ferguson's book. Likely there would of been bombings if there has been air planes in the seventeen century as the thirty years war was being waged on the European continent. Ferguson somehow thinks that the time period had more to do with the mass slaughter than advances in science and material knowledge that created and ability for more killing to take place in a short time. The boom and bust cycles of markets increased further pressure on subjugated peoples under European rule who eventually found ways to fight against European empires as oppressive colonial rule became more undesirable even as restrictive measures were taken to increase control. Niall observes the fall of the empires in the First World War and then the fall of the British, French, and Dutch among other European empires as somewhat all being related to these conflicts. Th
e Turkish answer to the Armenian question would soon be repeated throughout Europe and Asia as bold actions were taken to wipe out whole communities of people on the other side and the irreconcilable racial hatreds and differences is seen by the author as the underlying cause of much of the slaughter that has brought down Western Civilization through these two disastrous wars.
Technological improvements also enabled which is a large explanation of Ferguson's book. Likely there would of been bombings if there has been air planes in the seventeen century as the thirty years war was being waged on the European continent. Ferguson somehow thinks that the time period had more to do with the mass slaughter than advances in science and material knowledge that created and ability for more killing to take place in a short time. The boom and bust cycles of markets increased further pressure on subjugated peoples under European rule who eventually found ways to fight against European empires as oppressive colonial rule became more undesirable even as restrictive measures were taken to increase control. Niall observes the fall of the empires in the First World War and then the fall of the British, French, and Dutch among other European empires as somewhat all being related to these conflicts. Th
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