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A Question of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in the Two World Wars
During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved, beaten and even killed, theirs was a battle of conscience. This is a collection of their stories from all walks of life.
212 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1997
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May 4, 2015
The book is fascinating for its revealing the experiences of Contentious Objectors of many faiths. It also discusses the peace movement of the interwar period, for example in the 1930s Britain 100000 signed a pledge for peace “I renounce war, and will never support or sanction another” from the Pledge for Peace Union led by Dick Shephard .
What intrigues me most was the experiences of Objectors who reneged and then fought, those who chose non combatant ambulance duty, or bomb disarming instead of combat, and those who, seeing the concentration camps regretted their decision to not fight.
What intrigues me most was the experiences of Objectors who reneged and then fought, those who chose non combatant ambulance duty, or bomb disarming instead of combat, and those who, seeing the concentration camps regretted their decision to not fight.
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