To End All Wars : A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

English

ISBN: 0547750315

EAN: 9780547750316

Category: Social Science / Sociology / General/History / Military / World War I/Biography & Autobiography / Military/History / Military / General/History / Europe / Great Britain/Philosophy / General/Political Science / Peace/Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy/Biography & Autobiography / General/

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Release Date: 06/06/2012

Synopsis: World War I stands as one of historys most senseless spasms of carnage. 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 wars critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britains 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 Britains 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?

Awards: Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null 

To End All Wars : A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.25 inches

Width: 5.31 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 16.05 oz

Pages: 496