A new history of WWI, by the bestselling author of "King Leopold's Ghost" and "Bury The Chains". Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities, and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. Through these divided families, he paints a vivid picture of Britain poised between the optimism of the Victorian era and the era of Auschwitz and the Gulag. 'Charged and moving...' "Guardian