LibGuides: Primary Sources: World War II: Anti-War

Online Sources: Anti-War/Peace Advocacy - WWII

Alternative Service in the Second World War: Conscientious Objectors in Canada: 1939-1945
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"This site tells the story of Canada 's conscientious objectors in the Second World War. The Mennonite Heritage Centre received funding for this project in part from the Canadian Council of Archives and Heritage Canada to digitize materials in the Heritage Centre's collection related to this topic." Some primary source documents are available.

The Anti-Warrior: A Memoir by Milt Felsen
Call Number: DP269.9 .F36 1989
ISBN: 0877452415
"After the Spanish Civil War, Felsen helped form the O.S.S. in World War II. Taken prisoner of war, he escaped in his inimitable style during a 1,200-mile prisoner-of-war march and drove out of Nazi Germany in a Mercedes-Benz. He returned to the United States more convinced than ever of war's insanity and its extreme human cost."
A Few Small Candles by Larry Gara & Lenna Mae Gara
Call Number: D810.C82 F48 1999
ISBN: 0873386213
War Resisters of World War II tell their Stories
Not in Our Name: American Antiwar Speeches, 1846 to the present by Jesse Stellato (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780271048680
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing by Lawrence Rosenwald (Editor); James Carroll (Foreword by)
Call Number: JZ5584.U6 W376 2016
ISBN: 9781598534733

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