Description
Author: Kramer, Ann
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Place: Barnsley
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: New Book
Category: WW2 Military
Year: 2013
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: vii + 199pp., b/w pls., bibliog., index, Even today, most histories of the world wars focus on those who fought. Those who refused to fight are usually overlooked, or just mentioned in passing, sometimes in a very dismissive manner. During the First World War, 16,000 men in Britain refused conscription: they believed it was wrong to take up arms and kill. Known as conscientious objectors they were humiliated, abused and imprisoned for their stand. More than 70 died as a result of brutal treatment. Twenty years later, during the Second World War, there were more than 60,000 conscientious objectors in Britain
