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To End All Wars de Adam Hochschild

To End All Wars

Autor Adam Hochschild
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2012
A brilliant new history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780330447447
ISBN-10: 0330447440
Pagini: 498
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Unabridged ed
Editura: PAN

Recenzii

"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 . . . 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. 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. Bacevich, author of "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War""Adam Hochschild is the rare historian who fuses deep scholarship with novelistic flair. In his hands, World War I becomes a clash not only of empires and armies, but of individuals: king and Kaiser, warriors and pacifists, coal miners an

Notă biografică

Adam Hochschild's first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a Journey into the Heart of South Africa and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa won the Duff Cooper Prize in the UK, the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. To End All Wars: a Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War, was published by Macmillan in 2011. His books have been translated into twelve languages.

Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, the sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild. They have two sons and one grandchild.