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21 SELECTION OF BOOKS ABOUT CONSCRIPTION
and related issues

Sylvia Pankhurst The Home Front
P Armitage Leicester 1914-1918: The wartime story of a Midlands town (1933)
W H Scott Leeds in the Great War 1914-1918: A book of Remembrance (1923)
J Hinton The first Shop Stewards movement (1973)
T Wilson The Myriad Faces of War: Britain in the Great War (1986)
N Pukowski and J Skyes Shot at Dawn: Execution in World war One by Authority of the British Army (1989)
J W Graham Conscription and Conscience (1921) [Quaker and pacifist account]
Denis Hayes Conscription and conflict: The conflict of ideas in the struggle for and against military conscription in Britain between 1901 and 1939 (1949)
D A Martin Pacifism: An Historical and Sociological Study (1965)
D Boulton Objection Overruled (1967)
Clifford Barnard. Two weeks in May 1945 – Sandbostle Concentration Camp and the Friends Ambulance Unit.
Peretz Kidron ed. Refusnick – Israel’s soldiers of conscience.
John C.Moskos, John Whiteclay Chambers. The new conscientious objection – from sacred to secular.
KennethMellanby. Human Guinea Pigs.
J Rae, Conscience and Politics: the British Government and the Conscientious Objectors to Military Service, 1916-1919 (1970)
M Ceadel Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945: The defining of a faith (1980)
F L Carsten War against War; British and German Radical Movements in the First World War (1982)
C Moorehead Troublesome People: Enemies of War 1916-1986 (1987)
F Goodall A Question of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Two World Wars (1997)
Cyril Pearce Comrades in Conscience - the story of an English community's opposition to the Great War (2001)
R Barker Conscience Government and War - conscientious objection in Great Britain 1939-45 (1982)
Denis Hayes Challenge of Conscience (1949)
Martin Ceadel The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854 (2000)
Martin Ceadel Semi-detached idealists- the British Peace Movements and International Relations, 1854-1945 (2000)

Mulford Q Sibley and Philip E Jacobs Conscription of Conscience - the American state and the Conscientious objector 1940-1947 (1952)
L C Jauncey The Story of Conscription in Australia (1935)
Catholic Institute for International Relations/Pax Christi War & Conscience in South Africa: The Churches & Conscientious Objection (1982)
GC Zahn War, Conscience and Dissent (1967)