What I found shocking was the ruthlessness in the way Britian handled the protesters. This included Field Marshal Sir John French, original commander of the BEF, and his sister, Charlotte Despard. Families were torn apart by differences of opinion. The author does a fine job of matching the efforts of the protesters et al against the backdrop of the events in war. This the first book I have seen that deals in depth with war protesters, suffragettes and conscientious objectors in Britian during the First World War. The sub title is what caught my attention: A story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. I managed to obtain one of the few copies currently available in the local libriaries. This book came to my attention via some recommendations I received from Amazon.
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? Read more 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. He 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.
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