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Battles of Conscience

Author : Tobias Kelly
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473581834
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Battles of Conscience written by Tobias Kelly and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitments Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up arms and whose stories, unlike those of the First World War, have been almost entirely forgotten. Tobias Kelly invites us to spend the war five of these individuals: Roy Ridgway, a factory clerk from Liverpool; Tom Burns, a teacher from east London; Stella St John, who trained as a vet and ended up in jail; Ronald Duncan, who set up a collective farm; and Fred Urquhart, a working-class Scottish socialist and writer. We meet many more objectors along the way -- people both determined and torn -- and travel from Finland to Syria, India to rural England, Edinburgh to Trinidad. Although conscientious objectors were often criticised and scorned, figures such as Winston Churchill and the Archbishop of Canterbury supported their right to object, at least in principle, suggesting that liberty of conscience was one of the freedoms the nation was fighting for. And their rich cultural and moral legacy -- of humanitarianism and human rights, from Amnesty International and Oxfam to the US civil rights movement -- can still be felt all around us. The personal and political struggles carefully and vividly collected in this book tell us a great deal about personal and collective freedom, conviction and faith, war and peace, and pose questions just as relevant today: Does conscience make us free? Where does it take us? And what are the costs of going there? '[An] excellent book' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving tribute' - SPECTATOR

Conscience

Author : Louisa Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101515309
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Conscience written by Louisa Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Thomas and his brothers' upbringing prepared them for a life of service-but their calls to conscience threatened to tear them apart Conscience is Louisa Thomas's beautifully written account of the remarkable Thomas brothers at the turn of the twentieth century. At a time of trial, each brother struggled to understand his obligation to his country, family, and faith. Centered around the story of the eldest, Norman Thomas (later the six-time Socialist candidate for president), the book explores the difficult decisions the four brothers faced with the advent of World War I. Sons of a Presbyterian minister and grandsons of missionaries, they shared a rigorous moral upbringing, a Princeton education, and a faith in the era's spirit of hope. Two became soldiers. Ralph enlisted right away, heeding President Woodrow Wilson's call to fight for freedom. A captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, he was ultimately wounded in France. Arthur, the youngest, was less certain about the righteousness of the cause but sensitive to his obligation as a citizen-and like so many men eager to have a chance to prove himself. The other two were pacifists. Evan became a conscientious objector, protesting conscription; when the truce was signed on November 11, 1918, he was in solitary confinement. Norman left his ministry in the tenements of East Harlem, New York, and began down the course he would follow for the rest of his life, fighting for civil liberties, social justice, and greater equality, and against violence as a method of change. Conscience reveals the tension among responsibilities, beliefs, and desires, between ideas and actions-and, sometimes, between brothers. Conscience moves from the gothic buildings of Princeton to the tenements of New York City, from the West Wing of the White House to the battlefields of France, tracking how four young men navigated a period of great uncertainty and upheaval. A Thomas family member herself (Norman was Louisa's great grandfather), Thomas proposes that there is something we might recover from the brothers' debates about conscience: a way of talking about personal liberty and social obligation, about being true to oneself and to one another.

Shocking the Conscience

Author : Simeon Booker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617037893
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shocking the Conscience written by Simeon Booker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable chronicle from a groundbreaking journalist who covered Emmett Till's murder, the Little Rock Nine, and ten US presidents

Conscience, Government and War

Author : Rachel Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100045827X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Conscience, Government and War written by Rachel Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1982, is a systematic and detached analysis of the 60,000 British conscientious objectors in the Second World War, forming an examination of the relationship between the individual and the State in time of war. It sets out to show how the British Government dealt with the challenge that conscientious objectors posed and how far it was able to correct the abuses and injustices that occurred in the First World War. It traces the background of pacifism between the Wars and the introduction of conscription, and gives a detailed account of the functioning of the Conscientious Objectors’ Tribunals and an assessment of their work. It goes on to examine the reactions and attitudes of Tribunal members, employers and the rest of the population, and how these were affected by the Government lead. It recounts the experience of objectors in civilian life and private and public employment, and how they fared in the armed forces and prisons. It also assesses the contributions made by the voluntary organisations who helped conscientious objectors in the war.

War and the Christian Conscience

Author : Paul Ramsey
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Published for the Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics by Duke University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book War and the Christian Conscience written by Paul Ramsey and published by Durham, N.C. : Published for the Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inquiry into the ancient Christian theory of the "just war" and its application today.

Liberty and Conscience

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195151224
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Liberty and Conscience written by Peter Brock and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While objections in the 20th century have been well documented there has been little study of pacifist beliefs in America's early conflicts. This work seeks to remedy this by shedding new light on early US religious and military history.

War and the Liberal Conscience

Author : Michael Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book War and the Liberal Conscience written by Michael Howard and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries liberal minded men have been horrified by the pain and waste of war. From Erasmus, who saw war above all as a product of stupidity, to the Marxists who see it as a matter of class conflict, they have produced social theories to account for its occurrence and have tried to devise means to end it. Their prescriptions have been various. The central view of the Enlightenment was that wars would end when the ambitions of princes could be curbed by the sanity of ordinary men. At first the commercial classes seemed to be the new force that would produce this happy state, but by the end of the nineteenth century they themselves (the 'capitalists') were being stigmatized as the instigators of war. Similarly, the nineteenth-century liberals at first believed that the rise of the new independent nation-states of Europe would lead to a permanent peace as the wishes of the masses (naturally peace-loving) were able to express themselves. Again, the supposed agents of peace were soon seen as a prime cause of wars. Despite these contradictions there have been certain continuing themes in the search for a means to end wars, and one of the most enlightening things in this book is they way in which it is possible to see how these themes recur in subtly different forms in different periods of history. Professor Howard traces them from the renaissance to our own time, through the social, political and intellectual groups that gave birth to them. Throughout the whole story runs the continuing contrast between those who hoped to find a single cause for the disease, leading to a lasting cure, and those who understood that, in Professor Howard's words, 'this was a task which needs to be tackled afresh every day of our lives'.

On War

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God and Government

Author : Barry W. Lynn
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633880249
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book God and Government written by Barry W. Lynn and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn understands the complexities of this divisive issue like few others. As a long-time activist, a civil rights lawyer, and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he offers a perspective and experience on church-state controversies. In this book, he has compiled his writings from various sources to explore the many ways religious extremists have attempted to erode individual liberties. Lynn concludes that the ultimate goal of these extremist forces, consisting mainly of the Protestant Religious Right and the Roman Catholic hierarchy, is the creation of a corporate theocracy, a decidedly undemocratic system of government in which nonconservative Christians, along with humanist, feminists, and the LGBTQ community, are relegated to second-class status in America"

Our Common Conscience

Author : George Adam Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Our Common Conscience written by George Adam Smith and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Question of Conscience

Author : Felicity Goodall
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Conscience written by Felicity Goodall and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Challenge of Conscience

Author : Denis Hayes
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenge of Conscience written by Denis Hayes and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1972 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Battle of Conscience

Author : Erika Blériot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473316211
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Battle of Conscience written by Erika Blériot and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War and Christian Conscience

Author : Fahey, Joseph J.
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334694
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book War and Christian Conscience written by Fahey, Joseph J. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This primer on war and the Christian conscience begins in an imaginary college classroom as students react to news that the draft has been reinstated. ""Why cant I finish college?"" asks one student. ""Why do I have to go?"" These urgent and personal questions offer the entry to a clear and comprehensive outline of the basic Christian responses to the problem of war. As Fahey shows, the Christian tradition has supplied a variety of answers, including pacifism, just war teaching, the ethic of ""total war,"" and the vision of a ""world community."" In the face of these different approaches, how are we to decide which one is right? And more basically, how does one go about forming ones personal conscience? For all who ponder these moral challenges--whether as young people facing the question of military service, or as counselors, chaplains, or teachers--this book offers an essential and practical guide.

Conscience and the War

Author : American Civil Liberties Union
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Conscience and the War written by American Civil Liberties Union and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Edelweiss

Author : Johann Voss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Edelweiss written by Johann Voss and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a 20-year old Waffen-SS veteran of two years' combat against the Soviets and Americans is confronted with the awful, undeniable truth of the Holocaust, he must reconcile it with his pride in his comrades' battlefield sacrifices. The author served in SS Mountain Infantry Regiment 11 Reinhard Heydrich, part of 6th SS Mountain Division Nord. The book is mostly an account of his extensive combat service against the Soviets in northern Karelia and Finland, with a shorter section describing combat against the Americans in the Vosges and in the Saar-Moselle triangle. Voss reflects on the totality of his wartime experiences, from the origins of his reasons for enlisting in the Waffen-SS to his experiences in US captivity. The result is a compelling and honest account.

War and the Christian Conscience. How Shall Modern War be Conducted Justly?

Author : Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics (United States)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book War and the Christian Conscience. How Shall Modern War be Conducted Justly? written by Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics (United States) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: