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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. To this day, the war stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation.
To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. 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. 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. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other.
Hochschild 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?
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. To this day, the war stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation.
To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. 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. 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. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other.
Hochschild 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?
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Africa, as battleground in war, 195, 216, 276, 309, 349
Aldershot, 39, 67
Ames, Oswald, 3
Amiens, Battle of, 332
Anglo-American Society, 289
Archbishop of Canterbury, 219
Armenians, genocide against, 193, 349, 373
Artillery
at Battle of the Somme, 196–97, 198–99, 204, 206, 285
German use of, 205
German heavy artillery, 102, 320
shortage of shells for in Britain, 143, 163
surprising deadliness of, 110
Asquith, Herbert, xiv, 72, 84, 91, 94, 144, 158, 167, 185, 192, 202, 211, 219, 230–31, 236, 302
Asquith, Margot, 118
Asquith, Raymond (son), 180–81, 222
Astor, Waldorf, 178
Australia, 195, 299
troops in war from, 147, 186, 286, 309, 349
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 43, 79–80
civilian privations in, 215, 312
ethnic dissolution of, 338
fighting against Italy, 291–92
fighting against Russia, 117–18, 156, 247
fraternization begun, 157
and peace of Brest-Litovsk, 304–5
FWW death toll in, 348
peace overtures from, 273
Serbia as antagonist of, 82
Serbia occupied by, 194
strikes and ethnic unrest in, 313
support for war in, 93
B
Baldwin, Stanley, 363
Balkans, and Austro-Hungarian brutality, 194
“Bantam Battalions,” 231–33, 236
Barbed wire
in First World War, 125, 138
and camps for civilians, 33, 216, 373
on Eastern Front, 256
German barbed wire, 143, 162, 163, 166, 198, 203, 204, 205–6, 208
tanks as defeating, 213, 332
and Kimberley siege in Boer War, 25
Barker, Pat, 261 n
Barrie, James, 148
Barritt, Cornelius, 200–202
Battle of the Somme (film), 226–28
Battles. See names of specific battles
Bavaria, revolutionary republic of, 338
Bayonets
in French army tactics, 102, 1...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Maps
- Clash of Dreams
- Dramatis Personae
- Brother and Sister
- A Man of No Illusions
- A Clergyman’s Daughter
- Holy Warriors
- Boy Miner
- On the Eve
- 1914
- A Strange Light
- As Swimmers into Cleanness Leaping
- The God of Right Will Watch the Fight
- Photos I
- 1915
- This Isn’t War
- In the Thick of It
- Not This Tide
- 1916
- We Regret Nothing
- God, God, Where’s the Rest of the Boys?
- Casting Away Arms
- 1917
- Between the Lion’s Jaws
- The World Is My Country
- Drowning on Land
- Photos II
- Please Don’t Die
- 1918
- Backs to the Wall
- There Are More Dead than Living Now
- Exeunt Omnes
- The Devil’s Own Hand
- An Imaginary Cemetery
- Source Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Photo Credits
- Sample Chapter from SPAIN IN OUR HEARTS
- Buy the Book
- About the Author
- Footnotes