To end all wars: how the First World War divided Britain
Published by Macmillan, 2011
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United KingdomAucott & Thomas
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Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with a non-authorial gift inscription on the half-title page, but otherwise unmarked, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xx + 448 pages, 36 photos on plates, 7 maps in the text, notes, bibliography, index.
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- Title
- To end all wars: how the First World War divided Britain
- Author
- Hochschild, Adam
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0230013961
- ISBN 13
- 9780230013964
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
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About the Author
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.
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