$29.30
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2021
Summary
We Will Not Cease is the unflinching account of New Zealander Archibald Baxter’s brutal treatment as a conscientious objector during World War I. In 1915, when Baxter was 33, he was arrested, sent to prison, then shipped under guard to Europe where he was forced to the front line against his will. Punished to the limits of his physical and mental endurance, Baxter was stripped of all dignity, beaten, starved and left for dead by the New Zealand military. In the final attempt to discredit him …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781988592992 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1988592992 |
| Author: | Archibald Baxter |
| Publisher: | Otago University Press |
| Imprint: | Otago University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 148mm x 210mm |
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Archibald Baxter
Archibald Baxter was born at Saddle Hill, Otago, in 1881. One of eight children, he left school aged 12 to follow his father into farming. After two years’ military incarceration and ill treatment overseas as a conscientious objector he returned to New Zealand in 1918. He married Millicent Macmillan Brown and they had two children - Terence, who was imprisoned for refusing conscription during World War II, and James K. Baxter, who went on to become one of the country’s most well-known literary figures. Archibald Baxter died in 1970.
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