Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008035835/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 34 of
34
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "Little is known about those who openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. While many of those men accepted alternative civilian service, more than 6,000 were incarcerated, with sentences ranging from a few months to five years. Some were tried, convicted, and reimprisoned for essentially the same offense - resisting induction into the armed forces - after their initial release. In A Few Small Candles, ten men tell why they resisted, what happened to them, and how they feel about that experience today. Their stories detail the resisters' struggles against racial segregation in prison, as well as how they instigated work and hunger strikes to demonstrate against other prison injustices. Each of the ten has remained active in various causes relating to peace and social justice.".
- catalog contributor b11153589.
- catalog contributor b11153590.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "In A Few Small Candles, ten men tell why they resisted, what happened to them, and how they feel about that experience today. Their stories detail the resisters' struggles against racial segregation in prison, as well as how they instigated work and hunger strikes to demonstrate against other prison injustices. Each of the ten has remained active in various causes relating to peace and social justice.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207).".
- catalog description "Little is known about those who openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. While many of those men accepted alternative civilian service, more than 6,000 were incarcerated, with sentences ranging from a few months to five years. Some were tried, convicted, and reimprisoned for essentially the same offense - resisting induction into the armed forces - after their initial release.".
- catalog description "Prison memoir / Bronson P. Clark -- Why I refused to register in the October 1940 draft and a little of what it led to / David Dellinger -- My resistance to World War II / Ralph DiGia -- My war and my peace / Arthur A. Dole -- My war on war / Larry Gara -- War resistance in World War II / John H. Griffith -- Reflections of a religious war objector (half a century later) / George M. Houser -- Prison and butterfly wings / William P. Roberts, Jr. -- How the war changed my life / Lawrence Templin -- My story of World War II / George Yamada.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 207 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Few small candles.".
- catalog identifier "0873386213 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Few small candles.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Few small candles.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "940.53/162 21".
- catalog subject "Conscientious objectors United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "D810.C82 F48 1999".
- catalog subject "Political prisoners United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Service, Compulsory non-military United States.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Conscientious objectors United States.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prison memoir / Bronson P. Clark -- Why I refused to register in the October 1940 draft and a little of what it led to / David Dellinger -- My resistance to World War II / Ralph DiGia -- My war and my peace / Arthur A. Dole -- My war on war / Larry Gara -- War resistance in World War II / John H. Griffith -- Reflections of a religious war objector (half a century later) / George M. Houser -- Prison and butterfly wings / William P. Roberts, Jr. -- How the war changed my life / Lawrence Templin -- My story of World War II / George Yamada.".
- catalog title "A few small candles : war resisters of World War II tell their stories / edited by Larry Gara & Lenna Mae Gara.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Personal narratives American. fast".
- catalog type "text".