I found this book to be an enjoyable and fascinating account of the Great War and those within British society who opposed England’s participation.
It tells the story of the British anti-war movement during World War I. A chilling book.Very well written.
Although the pacifists and COs did not play much of a part in the overall scenario of war, theIn a word...terrific.
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The next five parts are the war years, one part for each calendar year. To End All Wars focuses primarily on the British experience during World War I, a fine choice because few other nations left a complete enough written record to assemble the kind of story this book endeavors to tell. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! We get into the plight of the conscientious objectors (CO's) who were put in prison and went on hunger strikes.
The Germans wanted rubber in return for the optics. He presents his characters whether a voice for or against the war (which he sees as a colossal mistake.)
| Just leave us a message Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service.You're almost there! Those things have been covered well enough in any number of military histories.
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. A vivid but uneven film. It laid waste to a whole generation, with the cultural, intellectual, and economic capital of the great European powers going up in smoke. I'm a huge admirer of those who have the fortitude and capacity for original thought necessary to hold their own when faced with a tidal wave of opposition, as is the case with those Hochschild features here, but much as I admired their courage, I eventually found myself skipping through those parts of the book that featured them.
News, author interviews, critics' picks and more. All rights reserved. To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918A book that brilliantly succeeds in finding a new way to talk about the First World War, by looking at the protesters and conscientious objectors who opposed it along the way. A particular quote from this book says it all (and I paraphrase)...."War is the only thing that causes men to willingly travel hundreds of miles to be killed". Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would later write in his book Finding the Trapdoor. I was uplifted to experience how it was that some had the courage to work for peace and saddened by coming to terms with the futility of their efforts.
In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones.“Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us.”“For several years now, Kipling had been sprinkling his prose and poetry with anti-German barbs.
For patriotic, imperial-minded families, there was great pride in seeing their sons going off to what would surely be a quick victory.
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| Also some insight into the conditions for ordinary people in Germany hit by the deprivations resulting from wartime.