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. 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. '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. Hochschild] gives us yet another absorbing chronicle of the redeeming power of protest.' - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Brilliantly written and reads like a novel. Exemplary in all respects.' - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post 'Superb. As Adam Hochschild brings the Great War to life as never before, he forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn't cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history? 'Hochschild brings fresh drama to the story and explores it in provocative ways. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. 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.

Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. To this day, the war stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged.' - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air 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. 'This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else.

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