The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I WWI Literature battle and death on the

battle and death on the enemy front lines

as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look at the war's first year

This is the never-before-told story of these extraordinary men

earning the nickname ‘Woodbine Willie’ because of his habit of giving out both cigarettes and bibles to the men at the front

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The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I WWI Literature battle and death on theDescription By Niall Ferguson Paperback From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, necessitating