TO END ALL WARS by Adam Hochschild ( 9780330447447 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

TO END ALL WARS
A STORY OF PROTEST AND PATRIOTISM IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

By:

Adam Hochschild

Format:

Paperback

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£18.99

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£15.67

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ISBN 10:

0330447440

ISBN 13:

9780330447447

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Publisher:

PAN MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

1 February, 2012

Edition:

Unabridged edition

Pages:

356

Description:

A brilliant new history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains

Synopsis:

In this brilliant new work of history, Adam 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. They include the brother and sister whose views on the war could not have been more diametrically opposed -- he a career soldier, she a committed pacifist; the politician whose job was to send young men who refused conscription to prison, yet whose godson was one of those young men and the suffragette sisters, one of whom passionately supported the war and one of whom was equally passionately opposed to it. Through these divided families, Hochschild paints a vivid picture of Britain poised between the optimism of the Victorian era and the era of Auschwitz and the Gulag -- a divided country, fractured by the seismic upheaval of the Great War and its aftermath.

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Pan Books

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