World War I was supposed to be the "war to end all wars," yet nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest and millions of men died on the battlefields, in what remains one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage. Here the author of the Los Angeles Times Book Award winner Bury the Chains focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, many of whom were thrown in jail for their dissent.

"This is the kind of investigatory history [Adam] 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."—Fresh Air (NPR)