Conscientious Objectors of the First World War: A Determined Resistance

by Ann Kramer and Ann Krame

The story of conscientious objection in Britain begins in 1916, when conscription was introduced for the first time. Some 16,000 men -- the first conscientious objectors -- refused conscription because they believed on grounds of conscience that it was wrong to kill and wrong of any government to force them to do so. As historians mark the centenary of the First World War much emphasis is placed on the bravery of those men who fought and died in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184468119X
• ISBN13: 9781844681198
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Social History
• Length: 224 Pages