Author: Niall Ferguson

Cites

• Wilfred Owen (1)
  • IN: The Pity of War (1998) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For by my glee might many men have laughed, / And of my weeping something had been left, / Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, / The pity of war, the pity war distilled.
    FROM: "Strange Meeting", (1919), Poem, UK
• Thomas Hardy (1)
  • IN: The Pity of War (1998) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' / And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?'
    FROM: "And there was a Great Calm", (1920), Poem, UK