Full name: To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

Author: Adam Hochschild Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780547750316 0547750315

World War I stands as one of history's 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 war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's 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 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. 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 war to end all wars. Can we ever avoid repeating history? Similar books: The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson A World Undone by G. J. Meyer The First World War by Hew Strachan World War One by Norman Stone July 1914 by Sean McMeekin The Lost History of 1914 by Jack Beatty World War I by S. L. A. Marshall Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur A Mad Catastrophe by Geoffrey Wawro The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn MacDonald Catastrophe 1914 by Max Hastings The First World War by Martin Gilbert Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff WAR by Sebastian Junger