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Alternative Service in Canada During World War II
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John Aron Toews |
This book describes Alternative Service, a service which developed as a new phenomenon in Canadian history during World War II. It was a form of national service that the Canadian Government required… |
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Shades of gray
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Carolyn Reeder |
At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers … |
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The absolutist
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John Boyne |
It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Gr… |
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Bloody good
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Georgia Evans |
"In the first of a supernatural trilogy, one Dr. Alice Doyle finds that the power to fight evil comes from places she'd never believe. While the sounds of battle echo through the sky, a lady doctor h… |
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Conscientious objection in health care
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Mark R. Wicclair |
"The subject of this book is conscientious objection in health care and the principal aim is to provide an ethical analysis of conscience-based refusals by physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Before… |
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Hometown
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Marsha Qualey |
Just before the 1991 Gulf War begins, sixteen-year-old Border Baker moves to a small town with his father, a Vietnam War draft resister. |
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Amnesty
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Edward F. Dolan |
Discusses the issues involved in granting amnesty to Vietnam war deserters and draft evaders, including a history of the protests against the Vietnam war and a description of President Ford's amnesty… |
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Worth fighting for
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Rory Fanning |
Pat Tillman's death by friendly fire was covered up just days before his comrade Rory Fanning--who served in the same unit as Tillman--left the Army Rangers as a conscientious objector. Disquieted by… |
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Mennonite alternative service in Russia
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Lawrence Klippenstein,Jacob Dick |
viii, 163 p. : 23 cm |
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Not in our name
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Philip Adams |
"This is an unusual account of the impact of World War One on Briton Ferry, an industrial town in South Wales. Using material from the period the author has built up a story of resistance to military… |
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The Conscientious Objector’s Wife
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Kate Macdonald |
The Conscientious Objector’s Wife, edited by Kate Macdonald, is the letters of Frank and Lucy Sunderland, written during the First World War. They were English pacifists and fervent supporters of Lab… |
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Clay v. United States
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Suzanne Freedman |
Describes the trial of Muhammad Ali, the first three-time boxing Heavyweight Champion of the world, for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War. |
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El Auriga/the Charioteer
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Mary Renault |
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious obje… |
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Plowing my own furrow
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Howard W. Moore |
Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition, or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong.
This man lived until he was 104 years old, was on the cover LIFE magazine, was acti… |
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Sam Martin Went to Prison
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Frances Greaser,William Janzen |
Sam Martin spent nineteen months in prison during World War II. Why? Because the government would not accept his application for conscientious objector status. Instead of permitting Sam to do alterna… |
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Days of decision
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Gerald R. Gioglio |
The peace and war stories of 24 antiwar GIs. Some went to Vietnam as medics. Some went to prison. Some were discharged for efforts to organize against the war. A legacy of resistance to war that ce… |
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