A first-class fighting man
Subtitle: Verne & Estella Kessler and others : the struggles of a WWI Christian conscientious objector as told through letters and diary entries
By: compiled and edited by Barbara Royer
Contributors: Kessler, Estella, 1896-1992
Publisher: Blessed Read Editions
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Marion, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781936840274
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Pacifists; Conscientious objection; Old German Baptist Brethren; Pacifism; Christianity; Conscientious objectors; Biography
Other titles: Verne & Estella Kessler and others; Struggles of a WWI Christian conscientious objector as told through letters and diary entries
Description: The struggles of a World War I Christian (Old German Baptist Brethren) conscientious objector as told through letters and diary entries. Compiled and edited by Barbara Royer, it is the story of the lives of Verne and Estella Kessler while Verne was imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where noncombatants faced influenza and diphtheria, solitary confinement, starvation, mistreatment, and torture that sometimes resulted in death. The story is conveyed by letters between the young couple and others.
Notes: Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.