Philip Hensher

When intellectuals are clueless about the first world war

Frank Furedi's First World War: Still No End in Sight gathers commentary from academics and sociologists. How wrong some of them were

A WWI memorial in New York (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty) 
issue 01 February 2014
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