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Books by Adam Hochschild
  | | Spain in Our Hearts(Reprint) Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild 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 ..." |
 | | To End All Wars(Reprint) A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2012 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-547-75031-6, ISBN: 0-547-75031-5 "Product Description World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain’s leading investigative journa ..." |
 | | Bury the Chains(Reprint) Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2006 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-618-61907-8, ISBN: 0-618-61907-0 "From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history -- the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. In early 1787, twelve men -- a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery -- came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling f ..." |
 | | The Unquiet Ghost(Reprint) Russians Remember Stalin by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Mariner Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-618-25747-8, ISBN: 0-618-25747-0 "Misha Shevelov, Lev Gushchin, Olga Vronskaya, Dulcc Murphy, and Gennady Alfrenko. The writer Vladimir Zapetsky generously shared with me the results of his own extensive research into the events at Kolpashevo. Vitaly Shentalinsky provided much useful advice and an inside look at his own remarkable project of getting the literary manuscripts of Great Purge victims released from the KGB archives. Kathleen Smith and Vladimir Klimenko ..." |
 | | Half the Way Home(Reprint) A Memoir of Father and Son by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2005 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-618-43920-1, ISBN: 0-618-43920-X "A New York Times Notable Book: “An extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). From the author of King Leopold’s Ghost, Half the Way Home is a compelling memoir about a complicated father-son relationship. Adam Hochschild never used the words “Dad” or “Daddy,” just “Father.” The only son of Harold Hochschild—the head of a multinational mining corporation— ..." |
 | | King Leopold's Ghost(Reprint) A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, 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 ..." |
 | | The Mirror at Midnight A South African Journey by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-618-75825-8, ISBN: 0-618-75825-9 "A “stunning blend of reportage, travelogue, history and meditation” by the New York Times–bestselling author of King Leopold’s Ghost (Publishers Weekly). National Book Award finalist Adam Hochschild brings a lifetime’s familiarity with South Africa to bear in this eye-opening examination of a critical turning point in that nation’s history: the Great Trek of 1836–39, during which Dutch-speaking white settlers, known as Boers, journeyed ..." |
 | | Spain in Our Hearts(1st Edition) Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild 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 ..." |
 | | To End All Wars(1st Edition) A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild, Adan Gicgscgukd, Aurelian Craiutu Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-618-75828-9, ISBN: 0-618-75828-3 ""This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged." — Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh AirWorld War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, ..." |
 | | King Leopold's Ghost(Reprint) A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 366 Pages, Published 1999 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-618-00190-3, ISBN: 0-618-00190-5 "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 e ..." |
 | | The Unquiet Ghost(Reprint) Russians Remember Stalin by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1995 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-015795-6, ISBN: 0-14-015795-6 "Stalin's rule over Russia left some 20 million people dead and, in the 35 years since his death, no one would openly write or talk about his vast self-inflicted genocide. With the advent of glasnost, journalist Hochschild explores how Russians today are healing the wounds from an avalanche of long-repressed memories. Photos." |
 | | Half the Way Home by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 20 Pages, Published 1987 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-009610-1, ISBN: 0-14-009610-8 ""An extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love". -- The New York Times"His story is fascinating, and the portrait of lost childhood offered here evokes one of the archetypal dreams of the American mind". -- E. L. Doctorow" |
 | | Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays (Paperback) by Adam Hochschild Paperback, Published 2020 by University Of California Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-520-35564-4, ISBN: 0-520-35564-4 |
 | | To End All Wars(Unabridged) How the First World War Divided Britain by Adam Hochschild Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 2011 by Macmillan Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-230-01396-4, ISBN: 0-230-01396-1 "Product Description World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain’s leading investigative journa ..." |
 | | Finding the Trapdoor(Updated) Essays, Portraits, Travels by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1999 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0594-2, ISBN: 0-8156-0594-3 "For some 30 years, Adam Hochschild's voice has been one of the most distinctive in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a combination of adventurous reporting and personal honesty. Hochschild's readers can count on an unobtrusive erudition, a sense of justice, and an irrepressible curiosity about life.Admirers of Hochschild's Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son will find in ..." |
 | | King Leopold's Ghost(1st Edition) The Plunder of the Congo and the Twentieth Century's First Great International Human Rights Movement by Adam Hochschild Hardcover, 366 Pages, Published 1998 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-395-75924-0, ISBN: 0-395-75924-2 "King Leopold of Belgium, writes historian Adam Hochschild in this grim history, did not much care for his native land or his subjects, all of which he dismissed as "small country, small people." Even so, he searched the globe to find a colony for Belgium, frantic that the scramble of other European powers for overseas dominions in Africa and Asia would leave nothing for himself or his people. When he eventually found a suitable lo ..." |
 | | The Unquiet Ghost(1st Edition) Russians Remember Stalin by Adam Hochschild Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1994 by Viking ISBN-13: 978-0-670-84091-5, ISBN: 0-670-84091-2 "Explores how Russians--prison survivors, historians, concentration camp guards, and others--are healing the wounds inflicted by long-repressed memories of the former leader and recounts the efforts of many to locate relatives who disappeared during Stalin's tenure." |
 | | Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts(1st Edition) Colonial Exploitation in the Congo by Jules Marchal, Adam Hochschild, Martin Thom Hardcover, 244 Pages, Published 2008 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-239-4, ISBN: 1-84467-239-5 "The definitive account of early twentieth-century exploitation in the world’s only privately owned colony.In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labor, a program that reduced the population of Congo by half and ac ..." |
 | | King Leopold's Ghost(Updated) A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 1955 by Pan Import ISBN-13: 978-0-330-44198-8, ISBN: 0-330-44198-1 "King Leopold of Belgium, writes historian Adam Hochschild in this grim history, did not much care for his native land or his subjects, all of which he dismissed as "small country, small people." Even so, he searched the globe to find a colony for Belgium, frantic that the scramble of other European powers for overseas dominions in Africa and Asia would leave nothing for himself or his people. When he eventually found a suitable location ..." |
 | | King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Picador Classic) by Adam Hochschild, Barbara Kingsolver Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-5098-8220-5, ISBN: 1-5098-8220-0 |
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