Adam Hochschild: 12 books
Spain in Our Hearts
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
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,...
Half the Way Home
A Memoir of Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
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...
The Mirror at Midnight
A South African Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
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...
Finding the Trapdoor
Essays, Portraits, Travels
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
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,...
El fantasma del rey Leopoldo
Una historia de codicia, terror y heroísmo en el África colonial
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 19, 2017
A finales del siglo XIX, cuando las potencias europeas se repartían África a golpe de escuadra, el rey Leopoldo II de Bélgica llevó a cabo un brutal saqueo del territorio que rodeaba el río Congo. Provocó la muerte de diez millones de personas mientras cultivaba, irónicamente, su fama de monarca...
by Adam Hochschild
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun...
King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1999
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...
To End All Wars
A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
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,...
The Unquiet Ghost
Russians Remember Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless...
Para acabar con todas las guerras
Una historia de lealtad y rebelión (1914-1918)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Para muchos de los que la impulsaron, como el presidente estadounidense Woodrow Wilson, la Primera Guerra Mundial era la guerra que tenía que acabar con todas las guerras, la confrontación armada que debía evitar que una carnicería semejante, con millones de muertos en todo el mundo,...
España en el corazón
La historia de los brigadistas americanos en la Guerra Civil Española
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Un libro fundamental para entender el alcance internacional de la Guerra Civil Española.
¿Qué motiva a alguien para luchar por un país que no es el suyo? Desde los primeros compases de la Guerra Civil Española, esta se convirtió en una cuestión política internacional. Hitler y Mussolini...
Bury the Chains
Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2006
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...