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A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
May 2011
On Sale: May 3, 2011
480 pages
ISBN: 0618758283
EAN: 9780618758289
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
World War I stands as one of historyβs 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 warβs critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britainβs 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 Britainβs 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 βwar to end all wars.β Can we ever avoid repeating history?
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