His skill at evoking individual struggles for justice amid the sweep of historic events has made him a finalist for the National Book Award and won him a host of other prizes. Minneapolis Star Tribune ADAM HOCHSCHILD has won a reputation as a master of suspense and vivid character portrayal with King Leopold s Ghost, Bury the Chains, and other books. gives us yet another absorbing chronicle of the redeeming power of protest. Brilliantly written and reads like a novel. Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Superb.
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 couldn t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history? Hochschild brings fresh drama to the story and explores it in provocative ways. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. 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. 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. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. To this day, the war stands as one of history s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. Maureen Corrigan, NPR s Fresh Air World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how its challenged. Hochschild forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldnt cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history? From the Back Cover This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else. 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.
To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the wars critics, alongside its generals and heroes. To this day, the war stands as one of historys most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation.
World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Book Synopsis In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before. About the Book In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Hochschild brings World War I to life as never before, focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of its critics, alongside its generals and heroes.
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