Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family; To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
By Mark C. Johnson
Louisa Thomas never uses the word quixotic to describe the lives and passion of her great-grandfather, Norman Thomas, his pacifist brother Evan, or their soldier siblings Ralph and Arthur. But the nostalgic, ambivalent echo of lives largely unrewarded, when spent in loyalty to conscience, gives a certain reverence to this family biography, and you can almost see them tilting at the windmills of idealism.
