Allan Mallinson

The pacifists of the 1930s deserve greater understanding

British ‘conchies’ get sympathetic treatment from Tobias Kelly, who shows just how deeply the horror of the Great War had affected the public

A poster for the PPU, the pacifist organisation that emerged in Britain in the 1930s. [Bridgeman Images]
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  • Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War

    Tobias Kelly

    Chatto & Windus, pp. 375, £22

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