To End All Wars_ A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild [0]
A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918
Adam Hochschild
Table of Contents
Title Page
Table of Contents
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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
MAPS
INTRODUCTION: CLASH OF DREAMS
I. Dramatis Personae
1. BROTHER AND SISTER
2. A MAN OF NO ILLUSIONS
3. A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER
4. HOLY WARRIORS
5. BOY MINER
6. ON THE EVE
II. 1914
7. A STRANGE LIGHT
8. AS SWIMMERS INTO CLEANNESS LEAPING
9. THE GOD OF RIGHT WILL WATCH THE FIGHT
III. 1915
10. THIS ISN'T WAR
11. IN THE THICK OF IT
12. NOT THIS TIDE
IV. 1916
13. WE REGRET NOTHING
14. GOD, GOD, WHERE'S THE REST OF THE BOYS?
15. CASTING AWAY ARMS
V. 1917
16. BETWEEN THE LION'S JAWS
17. THE WORLD IS MY COUNTRY
18. DROWNING ON LAND
19. PLEASE DON'T DIE
VI. 1918
20. BACKS TO THE WALL
21. THERE ARE MORE DEAD THAN LIVING NOW
VII. EXEUNT OMNES
22. THE DEVIL'S OWN HAND
23. AN IMAGINARY CEMETERY
SOURCE NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PHOTO CREDITS
Footnotes
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
BOSTON NEW YORK
2011
Copyright © 2011 by Adam Hochschild
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hochschild, Adam.
To end all wars : a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914–1918 /
Adam Hochschild.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-618-75828-9
1. World War, 1914–1918—Great Britain. 2. World War, 1914–1918—
Social aspects—Great Britain. 3. Soldiers—Great Britain—Biography.
4. Conscientious objectors—Great Britain—Biography. 5. Loyalty—
Case studies. 6. World War, 1914–1918—Psychological aspects. 7. World
War, 1914–1918—Moral and ethical aspects. 8. Militarism—Great
Britain—History—20th century. 9. Pacifism—Great Britain—His-
tory—20th century. I. Title.
D546.H63 2011
940.3'41—dc22 2010025836
Book design by Melissa Lotfy
Maps by Mapping Specialists, Ltd.
Printed in the United States of America
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Photo credits appear on [>].
For Tom Engelhardt,
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Contents
List of Maps [>]
Introduction: Clash of Dreams [>]
Part I DRAMATIS PERSONAE
1. Brother and Sister [>]
2. A Man of No Illusions [>]
3. A Clergyman's Daughter [>]
4. Holy Warriors [>]
5. Boy Miner [>]
6. On the Eve [>]
Part II 1914
7. A Strange Light [>]
8. As Swimmers into Cleanness Leaping [>]
9. The God of Right Will Watch the Fight [>]
Part III 1915
10. This Isn't War [>]
11. In the Thick of It [>]
12. Not This Tide [>]
Part IV 1916
13. We Regret Nothing [>]
14. God, God, Where's the Rest of the Boys? [>]
15. Casting Away Arms [>]
Part V 1917
16. Between the Lion's Jaws [>]
17. The World Is My Country [>]
18. Drowning on Land [>]
19. Please Don't Die [>]
Part VI 1918
20. Backs to the Wall [>]
21. There Are More Dead Than Living Now [>]
Part VII EXEUNT OMNES
22. The Devil's Own Hand [>]
23. An Imaginary Cemetery [>]
Source Notes [>]
Bibliography [>]
Acknowledgments [>]
Index [>]
About the Author [>]
MAPS
Rival Blocs at the Outbreak of War facing page [>]
The Path to War [>]
The Western Front, August—September 1914 [>]
The Eastern Front and the Balkans, 1915 [>]
The Western Front, 1915–1916 [>]
The German Offensive, 1918 [>]
The War's Toll on the British Empire [>]
INTRODUCTION: CLASH OF DREAMS
AN EARLY AUTUMN BITE is in the air as a gold-tinged late afternoon falls over the rolling countryside of northern France. Where the land dips between gentle rises, it is already in shadow. Dotting the fields are machine-packed rolls, high as a person's head, of the year's final hay crop. Massive tractors pull boxcar-sized cartloads of potatoes, or corn chopped up for cattle feed. Up a low hill, a grove of trees screens the evidence of another kind of harvest, reaped on this spot nearly a century ago. Each gravestone in the small cemetery has a name, rank, and