![]() How does Hochschild link the first with the second World War?ĩ. ![]() What does Hochschild mean when he says that the war "forever shattered the self-assured, sunlit Europe." How was the world changed by the war-culturally, philosophically, as well as geopolitically?Ĩ. In what ways was the First World War different from all previous wars? Why was its destructive power so terrible-so "astonishingly lethal" in Hochschild's words?ħ. How does Hochschild portray the British generals who prosecuted the war? What was their attitude toward casualty numbers?Ħ. Talk about the class system in Britain and other countries of Europe? How did the onset of war delineate and exacerbate class divisiveness?ĥ. In what way was their underlying opposition different?Ĥ. ![]() The Earl of Lansdowne's opposition to the war stemmed from differing concerns than those held by individuals like Fenner Brockway, Alice Wheeldon, and John S. Do you consider them courageous.or disloyal or cowardly?ģ. Why did many of the upper classes oppose the war, considering it unjust? Hochschild memorializes what he considers their courage. Why did Woodrow Wilson affix that epithet to World War I? What did he mean by it?Ģ. What is the irony inherent in the book's title.
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