To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (1 Viewer)

[jazzeum]

I've just started to read this book by Adam Hochchild that came out several months ago. Here's a review that appeared in the New York Times earlier this year.

 

[damian]

I've just started to read this book by Adam Hochchild that came out several months ago. Here's a review that appeared in the New York Times earlier this year.

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Is this the US version. I have a copy of a book called To End all wars How WWI divided Britain by the same author also published this year.

 

[jazzeum]

Damian,

Yes, this is the US version.

Brad

 

[damian]

Damian,

Yes, this is the US version.

Brad

I find it very confusing and almost quaint that we still have separate US and UK releases of the same book.
With Amazon and Kindle around it is a bit anachronistic.
This author wrote and excellent book about colonialism in the Belgiam Congo.

 

[jazzeum]

In some of the books I have read, I know this is the practice. For example, Max Hastings' Churchill had different US and English editions as did Antony Beevor's D Day and Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War. I have the English editions of these books as they came out sooner and being the impatient type, I didn't want to wait.

 

[jazzeum]

This author wrote and excellent book about colonialism in the Belgiam Congo.

I'm reading it now, about two thirds done. It's quite incredible how Europeans treated the Africans. Since my knowledge of African history is scant (and that's putting it nicely), I can't speak for all Europeans but what Belgium, but particularly King Leopold II, did to the people of the Congo is nothing short of appalling and a holocaust. He's a blood brother to Hitler and Stalin.