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To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain (Hardback)
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Short Description for To End All WarsThe bestselling and award-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains brings his considerable flair for compelling narrative and meticulous research to the story of the First World War.
Full description- Publisher: MACMILLAN
- Published: 20 May 2011
- Format: Hardback 356 pages
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- Categories: British & Irish History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | First World War
- ISBN 13: 9780230013964 ISBN 10: 0230013961
- Sales rank: 81,127
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Full description for To End All Wars
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.
