The Great War(1st Edition) July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme by JoeSacco, AdamHochschild Hardcover, 54 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08880-9, ISBN: 0-393-08880-4
"From “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist) comes a monumental, wordless depiction of the most infamous day of World War I.Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and there were more than one million casualties by the time the offensive halted. In The Great War, acc ..."
The Great War(1st Edition) July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama by JoeSacco, AdamHochschild Pamphlet, 56 Pages, Published 2013 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-0-224-09771-0, ISBN: 0-224-09771-7
"The Great War July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme. It is an illustrated panorama with an essay by Adam Hochschild. "Sacco's work [is] the best argument around for comics as a journalistic medium". (GQ). Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and there were more ..."
"Depuis Novembre 1989, date de l'affaire des "foulards de Creil", des exclusions de jeunes filles de l'école publique frappent régulièrement la communauté musulmane de France.
A partir de Septembre 1994 ces affaires ont pris une dimension particulière par leur multiplication du fait de la volonté du ministre de l'Education nationale.
L'auteur de cet ouvrage a eu, depuis 1990, l'occasion d'intervenir dans de nombreuses situations simi ..."
American Midnight The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by AdamHochschild Published 2022 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-358-44201-1, ISBN: 0-358-44201-X
"In American Midnight, award-winning historian Adam Hochschild brings alive the horrifying yet inspiring four years following the U.S. entry into the First World War, spotlighting forgotten repression while celebrating an unforgettable set ..."
American Midnight The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by AdamHochschild Hardcover, Published 2022 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-358-45546-2, ISBN: 0-358-45546-4
Rebel Cinderella From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by AdamHochschild 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-1-328-86676-9, ISBN: 1-328-86676-9
"Rebel Cinderella From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of ROSE
PASTOR STOKES Adam Hochschild Houghton Miin Harcourt REBEL
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Rebel Cinderella The Improbable Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by AdamHochschild Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-0-358-31316-8, ISBN: 0-358-31316-3
"By a master of narrative nonfiction, Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner who was truly ahead of her time."
King Leopold's Ghost(Reprint) A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by AdamHochschild, Barbara Kingsolver Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2020 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-358-21250-8, ISBN: 0-358-21250-2
"In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million—all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes ev ..."
Rebel Cinderella From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes (CD-Audio) by AdamHochschild Published 2020 by Hmh Audio, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-358-30953-6, ISBN: 0-358-30953-0
""From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic ..."
King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by AdamHochschild 376 Pages ISBN-13: 978-0-8446-7315-8, ISBN: 0-8446-7315-3
King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by AdamHochschild 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-76078-520-8, ISBN: 1-76078-520-2
"Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity."
King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Picador Classic) by AdamHochschild, Barbara Kingsolver Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-5098-8220-5, ISBN: 1-5098-8220-0
King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by AdamHochschild Published 2019 by Pan Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-5290-1461-7, ISBN: 1-5290-1461-1
"Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity. ‘All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novel’ Robert Harris ‘A history like none other . ..."
"Particularly since Amazing Grace is directed by the talented and accomplished
Michael Apted, the creator of the ... And Apted's scriptwriter was Steven Knight,
author of the screenplay for Dirty Pretty Things, a memorably bold look at the
gritty ..."
Finding the Trapdoor Essays, Portraits, Travels by AdamHochschild 209 Pages, Published 2017 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0405-1, ISBN: 0-8156-0405-X
"... with Igor Dolutsky, a high school teacher experimenting with new ways of
teaching Russian history. He knows how to speak in a lively and simple way, so
that even the dumbest student in the class will pay attention and get the point.
That's just my speed: I can understand every word. My lowest rate, less than 50
percent, is with retired secret police officers: endless acronyms, bureaucratic
jargon, no experience talking to forei ..."
Spain in Our Hearts(Reprint) Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by AdamHochschild Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2017 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-544-94723-8, ISBN: 0-544-94723-1
"A New York Times bestseller -With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English. A humane and moving book.- -- New Republic -Excellent and involving . . . What makes [Hochschild's] book so intimate and moving is its human scale.- -- Dwight Garner, New York Times For three years in the 1930s, the world watched, riveted, as the Spanish Civ ..."
Spain in Our Hearts Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by AdamHochschild Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2017 by Pan ISBN-13: 978-1-5098-1060-4, ISBN: 1-5098-1060-9
"From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of people around the world felt passionately that rapidly advancing fascism must be halted in Spain; if not there, where? More than 35,000 volunteers from dozens of other countries went to help ..."
Spain in Our Hearts(1st Edition) Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by AdamHochschild Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-97318-0, ISBN: 0-547-97318-7
"From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government figh ..."
Spain in Our Hearts Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by AdamHochschild 438 Pages, Published 2016 by Pan Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-5098-1061-1, ISBN: 1-5098-1061-7
"But in Spain in Our Hearts, Adam Hochschild presents equally compelling, if less well-known, characters and weaves their stories together to reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war. ‘Hochschild’s contribution lies in the ..."