Reassessing World War I: Learning history the hard way
A review of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, by Adam Hochschild. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). In this brilliant study of World War I, Adam Hochschild explores the historical forces at work when the 19th Century so tragically encountered the 20th. In that first truly global conflict, the military traditions of the past collided with the realities of life in an industrial age, with top British commanders stubbornly defending the lance, the sword, and the horse in favor of the machine gun and ordering millions of men to certain death against impenetrable barriers of barbed wire.
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