 | These Strange Criminals: An Anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors from the Great War to the Cold War Subjects: Conscientious objectors -- Biography; World War 1914–1918 -- Conscientious objectors; World War 1939–1945 -- Conscientious objectors; World War 1914–1918 -- Prisoners and prisons; World War 1939–1945 -- Prisoners and prisons; World War 1914–1918 -- P; 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. Brock Peter : Peter Brock is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. |
