We Will Not Go to War
Conscientious Objection during the World Wars
Published on 8. November 2011
264 pages
978-0-7524-7644-5 (ISBN)
Description
During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved and beaten, theirs was a battle of conscience. In the First World War, seventy-three conscientious objectors died as a result of their treatment, and hundreds more were imprisoned. During the Second World War, many conscientious objectors performed other, non-combatant duties with great heroism, including bomb disposal, and joining the fire service and ambulance crews. Unable to turn a blind eye to the dark realities of war, these men and women, who came from all classes and backgrounds, wrestled with their moral values, and their struggles, motivations and stories are brought together in this moving and challenging history of war's outcasts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
1,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-7644-5 (9780752476445)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2010
The History Press Ltd
€28.50
Article in reprint
Person
FELICITY GOODALL is a former journalist and freelance foreign correspondent. She wrote Radio 4 play about Mea Allan Change of Heart (1999), and has written for publications such as The Sunday Times, Business Week, The Listener and The Guardian. She spent 15 years as a producer and presenter for BBC Radio 4 and has written five books of non-fiction. She was researcher and interviewer for a Radio 3 Docudrama about PTSD, Soldiers in the Sun, which was shortlisted in the Mental Health Awards 2008.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by the Revd the Lord Soper
- Preface
- Introduction to the 2010 Edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Individualists to the Core
- 2. Conscription
- 3. The 'Frenchmen'
- 4. Prison
- 5. The Home Office Scheme
- 6. Those at Home
- 7. Friends Ambulance Unit
- 8. Aftermath
- 9. The Interwar Years
- 10. War Clouds
- 11. A New Generation
- 12. Women
- 13. Non-Combatant Corps
- 14. Bomb Disposal
- 15. On the Land
- 16. In the Hands of the Army
- 17. The Absolutists
- 18. Service in the Blitz
- 19. Friends
- 20. A Change of Heart
- 21. Hindsight
- Further Reading
