Field Punishment No. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs And New Zealand's Anti Militarist Tradition

Author: David Grant

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Price : $35.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781877448461
Publisher : Steele Roberts & Associates
Imprint : Steele Roberts & Associates
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Publication date : 01 January 2008
Produced in : New Zealand
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Author : David Grant
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Illustrator : Bob Kerr
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Dewey classification : 355.224092293
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Pages : 159pp
BIC subject : Military history; Battles & campaigns; World history: First World War; Other warfare & defence issues; Military life & institutions
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One of New Zealand's most extraordinary stories describes the courage of the conscientious objectors sent overseas during WW1 in a brutal attempt to force them to renounce their convictions and join the war effort. Despite torture and privation, Archie Baxter and Mark Briggs held out till the end, in one of the bravest displays of principle New Zealand has ever seen. They were this country's first successful dissenters, in defiance of a militaristic, neo-colonial government that feared non-conformity.

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DAVID GRANT is the foremost authority on the history of conscientious objection in New Zealand. He re-appraises Briggs and Baxter's stand in the context of a New Zealand which has come to value its place as an independent, antimilitarist nation. BOB KERR'S paintings evoke the pathos and drama of the conscientious objectors' struggle.

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