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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 Unknown - 2011

by Adam Hochschild


From the publisher

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?

Details

  • Title To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
  • Author Adam Hochschild
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition MP3 - Unabridged
  • Publisher Tantor Audio
  • Date 2011
  • ISBN 9781452651316

About the author

Adam Hochschild is the author of a number of books, including "Half the Way Home," "The Mirror at Midnight," and "The Unquiet Ghost." Three of his books, including "King Leopold's Ghost," have been named Notable Books of the Year by the "New York Times Book Review" and "Library Journal."
Arthur Morey has recorded over two hundred audiobooks in history, fiction, science, business, and religion, earning a number of "AudioFile" Earphones Awards and two Audie Award nominations. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed.