Alan eden green (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Wraps. Condizione: Good+. Retired library copy with the usual, stamps, notations, stickers, and labels; Textblock aged but clean and tight; Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed. Book is protected by a fitted, clear plastic, library dust jacket; Front cover portrait of Vera Brittain by Sir John Rothenstein. 283p. Size: 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ex-Library Paperback.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Second Printing. 285 pages; moderate creasing on the covers and spine. Light yellowing on pages. Light shelf wear. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Testament of a Peace Lover. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. Very slight wear to top and bottom edge of spine. Vera Brittain wrote and sent her letters to a long list of subscribers, many of them in the services, advocating the preservation of those humanitarian values which so easily become twisted in wartime, and giving a different perspective to momentous events such as Dunkirk, the German invasion of Russia, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 285 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.). …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Paperback 1988. 285 pages. COVER IS CREASED. Flat spine. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref P54.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 149 pages with a 2 page list of other books at the rear, turquoise cloth, dustwrapper dusty, minor edge wear, small octavo. INCLUDED: A 6 page handwritten letter is loosely inserted from Alan Edan-Green the war-time pacifist who later worked for the government after the war. It is sent to a Rev Thomas Wrigley of (we think Stoke or Stafford) who was a sometime book reviewer. The letter berates both Churchill and Vanisttart for the heavy propaganda they showed over the sinking of 3 German U-boats, etc. There is a criticism of Hitler too. The letter is mostly about putting your Christianity above citizenship and is a polite but firm letter on the recipients faith and his views on the war which seems to differ. Alan Eden-Green (brief details) Member and founder of the Peoples Pledge Union and friend of Vera Brittain, a Blackheath based Pacifist group who were attacked and bound over by the courts during the 2nd WW.The PPU remained active in Blackheath with its local branch meeting at the home of its secretaries Alan and Winifred Eden-Green of 2 Talbot Place SE3. As well as supporting 'distressed COs' they set up a Pacifist Service Unit to provide welfare help in the local community. Alan Eden-Green (1916-1997) was a conscientious objector during the Second World War who 'performed voluntary work for Woolwich Council in the blitz, driving mobile canteens and putting up Anderson shelters for the elderly, he worked as assistant to author Vera Brittain another prominent pacifist through the war years and on to 1962. The Eden-Greens later edited a collection of Brittain's war time letters in which they recalled that 'two attempts were made to set the Blackheath Peace Shop on fire' and that an Army Major had threatened to shoot them both (Testament of a Peace Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain, Virago, 1988). Pacifism. Rare detailed letter of his beliefs.…