You’ve probably heard of the Christmas Truce 100 years ago between the trenches of the British and German soldiers. These were indeed brave men. Today it seems anyone with a uniform is dubbed a hero, but what about the peacemakers? On this show Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars, talks about those who risked all to oppose that insane first world war, and the relevance to today’s pervasiveness of permanent war and near silence of calls for peace.
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