TO END ALL WARS
by Adam Hochschild
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0618758283
- ISBN 13
- 9780618758289
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"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 Air World 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
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- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52257
- Title
- TO END ALL WARS
- Author
- Adam Hochschild
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618758283
- ISBN 13
- 9780618758289
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2011
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