Agent of Peace : Emily Hobhouse and Her Courageous Attempt to End the First World War

Agent of Peace : Emily Hobhouse and Her Courageous Attempt to End the First World War

Jennifer Hobhouse Balme

Språken
FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9780750963367

In the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) Emily Hobhouse championed the cause of the women and children herded into camps by Kitchener's army. By 1914, a confirmed pacifist, she felt passionately that civilians suffered more than combatants and she was anxious for a negotiated peace. Her 'Open Christmas Let