"This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged." — Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh AirWorld War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation.To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other.As Adam Hochschild brings the Great War to life as never before, he forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn’t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?"Hochschild brings fresh drama to the story and explores it in provocative ways . . . Exemplary in all respects." — Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post"Superb . . . Brilliantly written and reads like a novel . . . [Hochschild] gives us yet another absorbing chronicle of the redeeming power of protest." — Minneapolis Star Tribune
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. To end all wars : a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914–1918 /. Adam Hochschild. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-618-75828-9. 1. World War, 1914–1918-Great Britain. 2. World War, 1914–1918-. Social aspects-Great Britain.
A: Most books about any war, including this one, tell the story as a conflict between two sides. Instead, I’ve tried to tell the story of 1914–1918 as a struggle between those who felt the war was something noble and necessary, and those who felt it was absolute madness. Q: Were there war resisters on both sides? A: Yes.
To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the wars critics, alongside its generals and heroes. As Adam Hochschild brings the Great War to life as never before, he forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence?
To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the wars critics, alongside its generals and heroes. As Adam Hochschild brings the Great War to life as never before, he forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldnt cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history? "Hochschild brings fresh drama to the story and explores it in provocative ways. Exemplary in all respects.
To End All Wars book. To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes.
Adam Hochschild (/ˈhoʊkʃɪld/; born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, historian and lecturer
Adam Hochschild (/ˈhoʊkʃɪld/; born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, historian and lecturer. His best-known works include King Leopold's Ghost (1998), To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 (2011), Bury the Chains (2005), The Mirror at Midnight (1990), The Unquiet Ghost (1994), and Spain in Our Hearts (2016). Hochschild was born in New York City
World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation.
World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes.
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation.
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