To End All Wars Adam Hochschild

A story of protest and patriotism in the first world war paperback unabridged february 1 2012.

To end all wars adam hochschild. A story of loyalty and rebellion 1914 1918 2011 bury the chains 2005 the mirror at midnight 1990 the unquiet ghost 1994 and spain in our hearts 2016. His best known works include king leopold s ghost 1998 to end all wars. To end all wars. He stays loyal to this method in to end all wars.

Adam hochschild s stirring account of world war i concentrates on appalling losses in the ranks and the courage of dissenters. See search results for this author. Adam hochschild author visit amazon s adam hochschild page. Hochschild also devotes particular attention to the war s many victims including the soldiers who lost their lives and those anti war activists who suffered for their convictions.

To end all wars 2011 a work of historical non fiction by the american author and journalist adam hochschild tells the story of the first world war from a panoramic perspective but centering on the struggle in britain between those who believed the war was a just cause and the activists who opposed it. Ships from and sold by cambridge glen bookstore. There is no question that adam hochschild is a great writer. Prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire s slaves by adam hochschild hardcover 29 90.

Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and less frequently how it s challenged maureen corrigan npr s fresh air 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. Adam hochschild opens and closes his history of the first world war with a couple of questions. To end all wars is well organized thoroughly researched and passionately told narrative but i cannot recommend the book without some serious qualification. It would officially end nearly five years later.

Many of the horrors we live with today are rooted in the first world war. To end all wars. The first asks why does it bring a lump to the throat to see words like sleep rest sacrifice. Only 1 left in stock order soon.

Adam hochschild ˈ h oʊ k ʃ ɪ l d. Born october 5 1942 is an american author journalist historian and lecturer. Unofficially however it has never ended. The human toll of the war to end all wars august 11 2011 historian adam hochschild traces the patriotic fervor that catapulted great britain into war during the summer of 1914 as well as the.

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