We Will Not Cease

Interesting read of a New Zealand man who was a conscientious objector during WW1......more

I stumbled on this book while looking for background material for a project I'm working on. It was a title I wasn't familiar with and, when I looked at a synopsis, the content didn't seem to be releveant to what I was working on at the time. Nevertheless, the subtitle on the image of the front cover......more

Shocking firsthand account of the way New Zealand's conscientious objectors were treated during the First World War. The Baxter brothers, and all the other conscientious objectors, were extremely brave men who had to put up with an awful lot of abuse by officers. The ordinary rank and file treated t......more

An amazing book about a truely remarkable man - perhaps made all the more poignant by the erecting of a art piece in recognition of Baxter in my town of Dunedin. Written in a first person account, this book was eye opening, especially in gaining a deeper appreciation of someone who is a sort of half-......more

Pacifism ain't just for hippies. Sort-of an All Quiet on the Western Front except by a Kiwi. Archibald was an uneducated farmer who treated war like Bartleby treated work and paid for it dearly--- was beaten, pissed-on, starved, tied to a tree on the front lines as bombs exploded around him, then hi......more