The personal experiences of H. Martin Lidbetter in the FAU during the second world war. A moving, honest report told through his letters home to England during the nearly four years of his service to the war effort as a conscientious objector.
Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency bore fruit in the prominence of Quaker women in the American women's rights movement.