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the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award. His Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN USA Literary Award. For the body of his work he has received a Lannan Literary Award and the Theodore Roosevelt—Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association. His books have been translated into thirteen languages.

In addition to his books, Hochschild has written for The New Yorker, Harper's, the New York Review of Books, Granta, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, and many other newspapers and magazines. He was a cofounder of Mother Jones magazine and is a teacher of narrative writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He and his wife, sociologist and author Arlie Russell Hochschild, have two sons and two granddaughters.

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Charlotte Despard: © Press Association Images. Field Marshal Sir John French: © Rue des Archives/Mary Evans Picture Library. Horsemen en route to Kimberley: Twentieth-century lithograph by John Charlton, after a sketch by G. D. Giles © the Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Art Library. Rudyard Kipling: © Bettmann/Corbis. Alfred, Lord Milner: © Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Lady Violet Cecil: Courtesy of Hugh Hardinge and the Hardinge family. Emily Hobhouse: Photograph from an original half-plate negative by H. Walter Barnett, c. 1902, © National Portrait Gallery, London. Christabel Pankhurst: © Mary Evans Picture Library. Emmeline Pankhurst: © ullstein bild/akg-images. Sylvia Pankhurst: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Keir Hardie: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II: © Charlotte Zeepvat Collection/Mary Evans Picture Library. King George V and Queen Mary: © Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Basil Thomson: © Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: Photograph by Spencer Arnold © Getty Images. John Buchan: © Mary Evans Picture Library. Bertrand Russell: © Bettmann/Corbis. John Kipling: © Special Collections Library, University of Sussex/National Trust Photo Library. George Cecil: Courtesy of Hugh Hardinge and the Hardinge family. Berlin food line: © ullstein bild/akg-images. Early gas masks: © akg-images. Practicing for cavalry charge: © Imperial War Museum, London/Q.96405. "Go! It's Your Duty": Courtesy of the Advertising Archives. "The Conscientious Objector": Courtesy of the author. "Destroy This Mad Brute": Courtesy of the Advertising Archives. Still from The Battle of the Somme: © Imperial War Museum, London/Q.79501. Passchendaele, July 31: © Imperial War Museum, London/Q.5732. Passchendaele, September: © Imperial War Museum, London/E.711. Passchendaele, October: © Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Stephen Hobhouse: Courtesy of the Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain. Joseph Stones: © Press Association Images. Albert Rochester: Courtesy of the author. Alice Wheeldon and daughters: © Illustrated London News/Mary Evans Picture Library. John S. Clark: Courtesy of the author. Pacifists at Dartmoor: © Popperfoto/ Getty Images. Fraternizing soldiers: Courtesy of the author.

Footnotes

* One Liverpool agitator used to gather a sidewalk crowd by shouting, "I've been robbed! I've been robbed!" Once people surrounded him, he would explain that the robbers were the capitalists.

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* Russia figured in wild rumors that swept Germany as well. In the war's first week, it was reported that 25 French automobiles were stealthily transporting 80 million gold francs across Germany to Russia. Hundreds of towns set up roadblocks, and a total of 28 people, who were thought to look suspicious or who failed to stop quickly enough, were killed by trigger-happy guards.

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* One of Haig's generals, the hot-tempered Edmund Allenby, equally a stickler in such matters, once let loose a tirade at a soldier he found wearing an incorrect uniform in a trench, only to discover, when there was no reply, that he had been berating