Fri April 27, 2012 Tracing The Divides In The War 'To End All
Wars' Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 11:51 am This
interview was originally broadcast on August 11, 2011. To End
All Wars is now available in paperback. The human cost of World
War I was enormous. More than 9 million soldiers and an
estimated 12 million civilians died in the four-year-long
conflict, which also left 21 million military men wounded. "Many
of them were missing arms, legs, hands, genitals or driven mad
by shell shock," says historian Adam Hochschild. "But there was
also a human cost in a larger sense, in that I think the war
remade the world for the worse in every conceivable way: It
ignited the Russian Revolution, it laid the ground for Nazism
and it made World War II almost certain. It's pretty hard to
imagine the second world war without the first." Hochschild
traces the patriotic fervor that catapulted Great Britain into
war during the summer of 1914 — as well as the small, but
determined British pacifist movement — in