Battles Of Conscience: British Pacifists And The Second World War Tobias Kelly Chatto Windus Αγγλικά Βιβλία History

A Ground-Breaking New Study Brings Us Very Different Picture Of The Second World War Asking Fundamental Questions About Ethical Commitmentsaccounts Usually Involve Tales Bravery In Battle Or Stoicism On Home Front As British Public Stood Together Against Fascism However Looks When Seen Through Eyes 60 000 Conscientious Objectors Who Refused To Take Up Arms And Whose Stories Unlike Those First Have Been Almost Entirely Forgotten Tobias Kelly Invites Spend Five These Individuals: Roy Ridgway Factory Clerk From Liverpool Tom Burns Teacher East London Stella St John Trained Vet Ended Jail Ronald Duncan Set Collective Farm Fred Urquhart Working-Class Scottish Socialist Writer We Meet Many More Along Way -- People Both Determined Torn Travel Finland Syria India Rural England Edinburgh Trinidad Although Were Often Criticised Scorned Figures Such Winston Churchill Archbishop Canterbury Supported Their Right Object At Least Principle Suggesting That Liberty Conscience Was One Freedoms Nation Fighting For Rich Cultural Moral Legacy Humanitarianism Human Rights Amnesty International Oxfam Civil Movement Can Still Be Felt All Around Personal Political Struggles Carefully Vividly Collected This Book Tell Great Deal Freedom Conviction Faith Peace Pose Just Relevant Today: Does Make Free? Where It Us? What Are Costs Going There?\ [An] Excellent Book\ - Daily Telegraph\ Moving Tribute\ Spectator Σελίδες: 384 Διαστάσεις: 17X17Cm