"To End All Wars" redux.

I happened upon a blog entry by Eric Schansberg, and it's always interesting to note when someone else reads the same book you did.

Hochschild's "To End All Wars" on World War I (Schansblog)

A really important and under-emphasized war...

I knew too little about it, something remedied to some extent by Adam Hochschild's excellent book, To End All Wars.

My own thoughts on Hochschild's work came last summer:

ON THE AVENUES: For no reason at all (August 4, 2011)

 ... A century later, it all seems preordained, but we forget that amid an unholy flurry of secret treaties coming to deadly fruition in the aftermath of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s messy demise in Sarajevo, Europe’s prevailing warmongers retained a nagging fear: The continent’s socialists might actually make good on their “brotherhood of mankind” rhetoric, oppose mobilization, reject conflict, and require heightened internal warfare against the indigenous working class so as to conduct external warfare against neighboring countries.