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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 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?
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