Peace of the action: Richard Seebohm looks for lessons in the Swarthmore Lectures

‘Our Quaker voices are a resource.’

by Richard Seebohm 27th September 2024

This summer I watched the television programmes commemorating the D-Day landings of the second world war. Alongside the slaughter of thousands of soldiers on both sides, I watched the story of the historic town of Caen, only ‘liberated’ by being bombed to rubble. Inland, German cities like Hamburg and Dresden were being obliterated, in the belief that this would reduce the fighting morale of surviving Germans.