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

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

Description: 448 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: World War I stands as one of historys 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 wars critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britains 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 Britains 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