To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

by Adam Hochschild

Their battle could not be won in 1914–1918, but it remained, and still remains, to be fought again—and again. For even a century’s worth of bloodshed after the war that was supposed to end all wars, we are painfully far from the day when most people on earth will have the wisdom to feel, as did Alice Wheeldon in her prison cell, “The world is my country.”