ISBN: 84f95d3ab8b32d47a7eb7fcdc0be9e2c

In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before? World War I was supposed to be the "war to end all wars." Over four … Plus…

In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before? 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. Hochschild 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? Mariner Books World War I 9780547750316, AD,AF,CA,,,CL,CN,CO,DE,ES,FR,IT,,MX,,SRSX,,US,,,BL,,BL,,SX,,SX,,BL,SX, English History, HarperCollins<

2011, ISBN: 84f95d3ab8b32d47a7eb7fcdc0be9e2c

In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before?World War I was supposed to be the ?war to end all wars.? Over four l… Plus…

In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before?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.Hochschild 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?, 2011<

2011, ISBN: 84f95d3ab8b32d47a7eb7fcdc0be9e2c

In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divi… Plus…

In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister whose views on the war could not have been more diametrically opposed ? he a career soldier, she a committed pacifist; the politician whose job was to send young men who refused conscription to prison, yet whose godson was one of those young men and the suffragette sisters, one of whom passionately supported the war and one of whom was equally passionately opposed to it. Through these divided families, Hochschild paints a vivid picture of Britain poised between the optimism of the Victorian era and the era of Auschwitz and the Gulag ? a divided country, fractured by the seismic upheaval of the Great War and its aftermath., 2011<