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Description edit
World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Douglas Haig: A British military officer; well-to-do member of the cavalry; button-down and puritanical
- Alfred Milner: A British government official whose claim to fame began in South Africa's Boer War
- John Buchan: A writer and pro-war propagandist during the Great War--British
- Keir Hardie: A pro-union socialist anti-war agitator
- George Cecil: An ex-British prime minister's son and government official
- Sylvia Pankhurst: A sufferagette who remained a socialist and anti-war protester throughout the Great War
- Stephen Hobhouse: Add a description of this character.
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Bertrand Russell
- Kitchener
- Kaiser Wilhelm II: The king of Germany's empire before and during the Great War
- Winnie
- Christabel
- Basil Thomson
- Violet Cecil
- John Kipling
- Alice Wheeldon
- Edward
- Winston Churchill: This book takes place long before he is a powerful figure in the British government. He begins his career as a cavalry officer--as many well-to-do British men of his time.
- Emily Hobhouse
- John S. Clarke
- Fenner Brockway
- Ludendorff
- Asquith
- Northcliffe
- Adela
- Gordon
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Hettie
- Clemenceau
- Margaret Hobhouse
- Paul
Setting & Locations edit
- Germany
- Great Britain
- France
- Russia
- London
- Europe
- Belgium
- Ireland
- South Africa
- Berlin
- Paris
- India
- Serbia
- Austria
- Scotland
- United States
- Cape Town
- Petrograd
- Rochester
- Ypres
- Australia
- Egypt
- Eng Lish Channel
- Hungary
- Italy
- Battersea
- Vienna
- Transvaal
- Omdurman
- Glasgow
- Dublin
- Sarajevo
- Loos
- Atlantic
- Wales
- Passchendaele
- Kimberley
- Switzerland
- St. Petersburg
- Canada
- Holland
- Verdun
- Alsace
- Buckingham Palace
- Charlotte
- New Zealand
First Sentence edit
THE CITY HAD NEVER seen such a parade.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Adam Hochschild (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 3, 2011
ISBN: 0618758283
Page Count: 480
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 3, 2011
ISBN: 0618758283
Page Count: 480
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 940.341
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Military › World War I
- Books › History › Europe › England › 20th Century
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