to end all wars summary

Along the way, I got plenty of perspective on the overall war, despite limited coverage of military campaigns and political events in other countries involved in the war. Hopefully it won't take a century for people to regard those who spoke and acted in opposition to our more recent wars to be recognized for their insight and courage.A really wonderful book that is not a military history as much as a book about some of the key British protagonists and antagonists in the struggle. It is, of course about World War I. December 5, 2002 First is the story of the enormous incompetence of those prosecuting the war; the highest ranking authority on the civil side was Prime Minister Asquith, and on the military side, the Generals French and Haig. Everyone today regards the Great War of 1914-1908 as the tragically destructive result of deeply flawed ideas and institutions. But the nature of humanity in all its incongruities and paradoxes is what Hochschild loves pondering. The tales of sorrow, though, lace the pages and build to an unstoppable current as the story unfolds.

Hochschild is a master raconteur as he connects the lives of the have and have nots and the left with the right. June 13, 2004 I must admit, in my head antiwar protests started sometime around the 60s with Vietnam; but it turns out that the British peace movement during 1914–18 is one of the most impressive in history.A 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. In the final part is the Treaty and what happens in the lives of the major participants beyond.The height of human folly, waste, idiocy. I am happy to say that it does. Because he writes so well, bringing back more sharply into view through revealing anecdotes about their lives, beliefs, and actions people long dead, Hochschild's book has compellingly returned these conscieEveryone today regards the Great War of 1914-1908 as the tragically destructive result of deeply flawed ideas and institutions. We also learn of the many dissenters and their fate. This is a tale of enormous inhumanity, not just for the enemy, but for one's own troops as well, who were ordered to make suicide attacks by the tens of thousands. Doing it meant going against both the public opinion and the government of the nation during the period in modern history when it came closest to fascism, but they did it anyway.I admit it: I am a "Downton Abbey" addict. And while some have argued that the fight was necessary to prevent German continental dominance, in hindsight, it’s also easy to argue that it was not because it guaranteed it’s far more deadly successor 20 or so years later.An astonishing rendition of WWI. If there was ever a war that begged the voice of peace activists, the Great War was it so I couldn't quite figure out why I never found their stories compelling enough to follow, especially throughout the book's second half. To End All Wars, we suppose, is a history of dissent, an account of pacifist movements, conscientious objectors and deserters who (we also suppose) created much … May 3rd 2011 October 4, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 Lots of time was spent in the trenches too (British mainly), the ordinary soldiers dying by the thousands or suffering horrendous injuries as a result of outmoded war strategies ineffective against barbed wire on the Western FImmensely readable and informative book about WWI which captured for me the social tenor of the times in England--unions, suffragettes, pacifism, communism. The most surprising revelation was a year into the war the British were buying optics from the Germans so they could better see German soldiers to kill them.

| You read of Rudyard Kipling, a real jingoistic, imperial hawk, whose son went missing-in-action. But it is so much more than a series of plans and generals and battles. | Your Ticket Confirmation # is located under the header in your email that reads "Your Ticket Reservation Details". It is a war that endlessly fascinates me, an infinite surreal grand tragedy that yielded so little for the actors, except it laid the seeds for what could be considered an even grander tragedy for the world (the Nazis). | Rating: 2.5/5