第一次世界大战、第二次世界大战,无论波及的范围,还是战争的残酷性,在人类历史上都是空前的。为什么从农耕社会走向工业化社会,从愚昧、封闭逐步迈向文明、开放、民主的进程中还会发生这样血腥乃至人性泯灭的战争?这是尼尔·弗格森在研究20世纪战争史时最为纳闷的地方。他说,无论用什么标准来衡量,第二次世界大战都是人类历史上最惨绝人寰的人为性的大屠杀。然而1900年后的100年,又是人类取得了史无前例的进步的100年。为 World War I and World War II, both in scope and in cruel war, are unprecedented in human history. Why is it that such a bloody or even a human-nature warfare would have taken place from a farming society to an industrialized society and from foolishness, closure and gradual progress toward civilization, opening up and democratization? This is the most bizarre experience of Neil Ferguson in the study of the history of the twentieth century’s war local. He said that by any measure, the Second World War was the most traumatic artificial massacre in human history. However, one hundred years after 1900 is another 100 years for which mankind has made unprecedented progress. for