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Author Brock, Peter

Title These Strange Criminals : an Anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors from the Great War to the Cold War
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (524 pages)
Series Heritage
Heritage.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Document Credits -- Part One: The Great War -- Introduction -- Britain -- STEPHEN HOBHOUSE -- E. WILLIAMSON MASON -- HUBERT W. PEET -- JOHN HOARE -- GEORGE EWAN -- ROBERT PRICE -- Canada -- JOHN EVANS -- New Zealand -- ARCHIBALD BAXTER -- United States -- ARTHUR DUNHAM -- ALBERT VOTH -- PHILIP GROSSER -- Part Two: The Good War -- Introduction -- Britain -- ALEXANDER BRYAN -- PETER BROCK -- ROBERT L. HOCKLEY -- ERNEST SPRING -- KATHLEEN LONSDALE -- KATHLEEN WIGHAM -- New Zealand -- IAN HAMILTON -- Australia -- PHIL HANCOX -- United States -- ROGER W. AXFORD -- ALFRED HASSLER -- MALCOLM PARKER -- LOWELL NAEVE -- DONALD BENEDICT -- DONALD WETZEL -- Part Three: Cold-War America -- Introduction -- BRADFORD LYTTLE -- JEFFREY PORTEOUS -- J.K. OSBORNE -- 'JOHNSON' -- DAVID MILLER -- Appendix -- Further Reading
Summary Sometimes intensely moving, and often inspiring, these memoirs show that in some cases, individual conscientious objectors - many well-educated and politically aware - sought to reform the penal system from within either by publicizing its dysfunction or through further resistance to authority
Notes Print version record
Subject Conscientious objectors -- Biography
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and prisons
Conscientious objectors
Prisoners of war
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Brock, Peter
ISBN 9781442620803
1442620803