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To end all wars : a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918 / Adam Hochschild.
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- ISBN: 9780618758289 (hc) :
- Physical Description: xx, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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- Baker & Taylor
An epic chronicle of the first World War places an emphasis on the moral dilemmas raised by the war's critics, citing the achievements and associations of famous detractors while exploring how the war's lessons have particular relevance in today's world. By the National Book Award finalist author of King Leopold's Ghost. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Presents a history of World War I, focusing on the moral conflict between the proponents of the war and its critics in Great Britain. - Houghton
World War I stands as one of historyâs 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 warâs critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britainâs 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 Britainâs 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.Â
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 âwar to end all wars.â Can we ever avoid repeating history? - Houghton
In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before, focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of its critics, alongside its generals and heroes. A brilliant new history of the Great War that raises the eternal question of why such a terrible war was ever fought.
