To End All Wars

A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

Adam Hochschild

• Editore: Mariner Books
• Anno: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780547549217
• Argomento: History
• Categoria: World War I

In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before… World War I was supposed to be the "war to end all wars." Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain's most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. Hochschild forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn't cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Africa, as battleground in war, 195, 216, 276, 309, 349

Aldershot, 39, 67

Ames, Oswald, 3

Amiens, Battle of, 332

Anglo-American Society, 289

Archbishop of Canterbury, 219

Armenians, genocide against, 193, 349, 373

Artillery

at Battle of the Somme, 196–97, 198–99, 204, 206, 285

German use of, 205

German heavy artillery, 102, 320

shortage of shells for in Britain, 143, 163

surprising deadliness of, 110

Asquith, Herbert, xiv, 72, 84, 91, 94, 144, 158, 167, 185, 192, 202, 211, 219, 230–31, 236, 302

Asquith, Margot, 118

Asquith, Raymond (son), 180–81, 222

Astor, Waldorf, 178

Australia, 195, 299

troops in war from, 147, 186, 286, 309, 349

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 43, 79–80

civilian privations in, 215, 312

ethnic dissolution of, 338

fighting against Italy, 291–92

fighting against Russia, 117–18, 156, 247

fraternization begun, 157

and peace of Brest-Litovsk, 304–5

FWW death toll in, 348

peace overtures from, 273

Serbia as antagonist of, 82

Serbia occupied by, 194

strikes and ethnic unrest in, 313

support for war in, 93

B

Baldwin, Stanley, 363

Balkans, and Austro-Hungarian brutality, 194

“Bantam Battalions,” 231–33, 236

Barbed wire

in First World War, 125, 138

and camps for civilians, 33, 216, 373

on Eastern Front, 256

German barbed wire, 143, 162, 163, 166, 198, 203, 204, 205–6, 208

tanks as defeating, 213, 332

and Kimberley siege in Boer War, 25

Barker, Pat, 261 n

Barrie, James, 148

Barritt, Cornelius, 200–202

Battle of the Somme (film), 226–28

Battles. See names of specific battles

Bavaria, revolutionary republic of, 338

Bayonets

in French army tactics, 102, 1...