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TO END ALL WARS: A STORY OF LOYALTY AND REBELLION, 1914-1918
By: 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
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Non-Fiction History
World War I was supposed to be the โwar to end all wars.โ 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 historyโs most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the warโs 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 Britainโs 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 couldnโt cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - April 27, 2012
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