Award-winning author Adam Hochschild will speak about World War I in a talk titled “The War to End All Wars: Looking Back 100 Years Later” from 7:30-9 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 1, in 115 Purnell Hall on the University of Delaware’s Newark campus.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception.

Hochschild is the author of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. In his talk, he will discuss the war that led to 20 million deaths, the rise of Nazism, the Russian Revolution and another, even more destructive, world war. He will take a fresh look at World War I and those who refused to fight in it.

Hochschild is the author of eight books including King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. His most recent book, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans and the Spanish Civil War won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Award and the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

In 2009 Hochschild received the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Historical Association, and in 2014 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A former journalist, he is a lecturer at the University of California’s Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

His talk is sponsored by UD’s departments of History and English.