One Voice: Pacifist Writings From the Second World War

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Publisher
Continuum
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ISBN
0826485340
Collection
Part of Stetson Kennedy Library
Year
2005
Description

Vera Brittain served as a nurse in the First World War, a war in which her brother, fiance, and two closest friends were killed.  In 1933 she published her classic autobiography, Testament of Youth, and moved gradually towards a position of Christian pacifism.

In 1942, during the Second World War, Brittain wrote Humiliation with Honour, a statement of her pacifist beliefs, in the form of letters to her son John.  Two years later she followed this with a denunciation of the Allies' policy of the saturation bombing of German cities, Seed of Chaos, in which she argued forcefully that there was no evidence that the mass bombing of great centres of population would either shorten the war or break civilian morale.