Next up on my reading list To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild. Published today, the book explores the conflict between pacifists and those supporting Britain's entry into WW I.
Hochschild's 1999 book, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, covers the little known history of the Belgium Congo. The story in that book is so gruesome, it is hard to believe it actually happened. In 2005 he published Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, about the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. I would say the Hochschild is one of the best non-fiction writers today, so I am anxious to read his new book.
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