To End All Wars
A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War
(Sprache: Englisch)
A new history of WWI, by the bestselling author of "King Leopold's Ghost" and "Bury The Chains". Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities, and shows how the war exposed the divisions between...
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A new history of WWI, by the bestselling author of "King Leopold's Ghost" and "Bury The Chains". Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities, and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. Through these divided families, he paints a vivid picture of Britain poised between the optimism of the Victorian era and the era of Auschwitz and the Gulag. 'Charged and moving...' "Guardian"
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Adam Hochschild
- 356 Seiten, Maße: 19,7 x 20,1 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 0330447440
- ISBN-13: 9780330447447
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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"This is a book to make one feel deeply and painfully, and also to think hard."--Christopher Hitchens, "New York Times Book Review""Hochschild brings fresh drama to the story, and explores it in provocative ways . . . Exemplary in all respects."--Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Post"
"In this deeply moving history of the so-called Great War, those opposing its mindless folly receive equal billing with the politicians, generals, and propagandists obdurately insisting on its perpetuation. Implicit in Adam Hochschild's account is this chilling warning: once governments become captive of wars they purport to control, they turn next on their own people."--Andrew J. Bacevich, author of "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War""Adam Hochschild is the rare historian who fuses deep scholarship with novelistic flair. In his hands, World War I becomes a clash not only of empires and armies, but of individuals: king and Kaiser, warriors and pacifists, coal miners an
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