Huddersfield, 1914—while many signed up to fight in the war that would engulf the next four years, the town’s community of conscientious objectors was growing.
"What did you do in the war, daddy?" It's a classic question - and maybe one that expected the answer to be stories of brave attacks on enemy lines, pressing forward against overwhelming odds.
Conviction uses personal stories to help students engage with the dilemmas faced by women, men and families in World War 1. It is intended for use in secondary schools at Key Stages 3 and 4.
Spare, haunting, utterly magnificent, and profoundly human, this inspiring collection creates a portrait of the greatest humanitarian crisis of modern history.
'My book of the year. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now. This is the book I've been waiting for - for years' Benjamin Zephaniah