Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line: Conscientious Objectors During World War II by George S. McGovern, Mark Matthews

Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line: Conscientious Objectors During World War II

George S. McGovern, Mark Matthews

336 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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During the Vietnam era, conscientious objectors received both sympathy and admiration from many Americans. It was not so during World War II. The pacifists who chose to sit out that war—some 72,000 men—were publicly derided as "yellowbellies" or e...

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