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 bringsit to life as never before. He focuses on thelong-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were B...(展开全部)

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 bringsit to life as never before. He focuses on thelong-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were B...(展开全部)

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 bringsit to life as never before. He focuses on thelong-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were B...(展开全部)

In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister whose views on the war could not have been more diametrically opposed -- he a career soldier, she a committed pacifist; the politician wh...(展开全部)

In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister whose views on the war could not have been more diametrically opposed he a career soldier, she a committed pacifist; the politician whos...(展开全部)

The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today. The First World War is one of history’s greates...(展开全部)

The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today. The First World War is one of history’s greates...(展开全部)

The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today. The First World War is one of history’s greates...(展开全部)

The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today. The First World War is one of history’s greates...(展开全部)

The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost cont...(展开全部)