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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Adam Hochschild
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Mariner Books
March 2012
On Sale: March 6, 2012
496 pages ISBN: 0547750315 EAN: 9780547750316 Kindle: B004X7TKUM Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
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?
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