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Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. (June 2009)

Engines of Destruction

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

by Robert K. Massie

February 26, 2004 issue

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