Hochschild's books have been translated into five languages and have won prizes from the Overseas Press Club of America, the World Affairs Council, the Eugene V. Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the 1998 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey (1990) and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994). His first book, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones. He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would later write in his book Finding the Trapdoor. Currently-lives in San Francisco, CaliforniaĪdam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964.Lionel Gelber Prize (Canada) Duff Cooper Prize (Britain) Anthony Lukas Prize Mark Lynton History Award

Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the “war to end all wars.” Can we ever avoid repeating history? ( From the publisher.)

Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. 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. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain’s leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper. Hochschild focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes.

In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

To end all wars by adam hochschild