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- The lengthy battlefield descriptions, while moving, do detract from Hochschild’s gripping central characters because, more than anything else, this is a book about the clash of worldviews within British society. “To End All Wars” wants the reader to see the rush to war and the inability to stop it as the product of entrenched mind-sets.
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May 13, 2011 · May 13, 2011. Woodrow Wilson’s fatuous claim about the European war of 1914-18 — sarcastically annexed by Adam Hochschild for the title of this moving and important book — was an object of satire...
Apr 11, 2011 · 4.14. 8,861 ratings732 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best History & Biography (2011) 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.
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May 3, 2011 · by Elie Wiesel ; illustrated by Mark Podwal. BOOK REVIEW. NIGHT. by Elie Wiesel ; translated by Marion Wiesel. From historian Hochschild (Bury the Chains: The First International Human Rights Movement, 2005, etc.), a selective history of the slaughter of innocents in World War I.
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A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. Adam Hochschild. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 450 pp., $28. We think of Europe in 1914 as a continent all too eager for war — volunteers jamming...
Jul 3, 2011 · Book Review: ‘To End All Wars’. By Marla Stone. July 3, 2011 12 AM PT. Special to the Los Angeles Times. To End All Wars. A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. Adam...
Mar 6, 2012 · In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before…. World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.”. Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields.
