TUC Library at London Metropolitan University presents a lunchtime talk 24 October

To End All Wars  Adam Hochschild on his latest book A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War.

Author of King Leopold’s Ghost, award winning writer and journalist Adam Hochschild will talk (with audio, film and music) about his current book about the Great War and the opposition to it from feminists, philosophers, trade unionists, and those on the left. The story of how the international socialist movement collapsed in the face of nationalist fervour for war, but how individuals and groups continued to question the war’s legitimacy especially in the light of the alarming death-toll of soldiers from around the world across Europe’s battlefields.

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1 – 2pm                       open to all                    Free     Please register

Enter through the main building reception on Holloway Road

Room TM1-45
Tower Building,
North Campus,
166-220 Holloway Road,
N7 8DB.

A book to make one feel deeply and painfully Christopher Hitchens.

Much of the literature that Adam refers to is available from the TUC Library.

As part of FSSH Community engagement week

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