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To end all wars a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918

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World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In his riveting narrative, Hochschild brings it to life as never before while focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes.

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Main Author: Hochschild, Adam
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain.
World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Soldiers > Great Britain > Biography.
Conscientious objectors > Great Britain > Biography.
Loyalty > Case studies.
World War, 1914-1918 > Psychological aspects.
World War, 1914-1918 > Moral and ethical aspects.
Militarism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Pacifism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
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Summary:World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In his riveting narrative, Hochschild brings it to life as never before while focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes.
Physical Description:xx, 448 p., [16] p. of plates : maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-426) and index.
ISBN:9780618758289
0618758283
Author Notes:Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. He began his journalism career as a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. Then he worked for ten years as a magazine editor and writer, at Ramparts and Mother Jones, which he co-founded. He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation.

His first book, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. His other books include The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey; The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin; Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels; King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa; Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves; and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. He teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

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