To End All Wars. How The First World War Divided Britain

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Macmillan
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: Reprint

Description: 447 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 an underground newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper. These critics were 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, containing the bodies of millions of men who died in the "war to end all wars." Can we ever avoid repeating history? 377 pages text, 448 pages with notes

ISBN: 9780230013964