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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 Hardcover - 2011
by Hochschild, Adam
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before, focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of its critics, alongside its generals and heroes. A brilliant new history of the Great War that raises the eternal question of why such a terrible war was ever fought.
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- Title To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
- Author Hochschild, Adam
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
- Date 2011-01-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # SPIROhocTEA
- ISBN 9780618758289 / 0618758283
- Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 4.06 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918 - Psychological aspects, Loyalty
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010025836
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.341
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Summary
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. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain’s leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates 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.
Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the “war to end all wars.” Can we ever avoid repeating history?
Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the “war to end all wars.” Can we ever avoid repeating history?