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Posted: 02 Nov 2006 @ 00:00
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One of our ex-vicars went to Dublin in 1943 to fill the gap left
when a curate came to England to join the RAF. After the war, a new vicar was
surprised to meet a parishioner who had landed on the Normandy beaches the same
day as he. Where might I find books about the place of the Church and the
clergy in war? How did the Churches contribute? I am aware that there were
outspoken critics of our going to war, but I haven’t yet found anything I
wished to read.
May I immodestly suggest that the questioner may find my two books helpful:
The Church of England and the First World War (SCM Press, 1996), still
in print; and
Dissent or Conform? War, Peace and the English Churches 1900-1945 (SCM
Press, 1986), out of print.
(Canon) Alan Wilkinson
Portsmouth
I have a book, Chaplains in the RAF: A study in role tension by
Gordon C. Zahn, published by Manchester University Press, which may deal with
many of the questions being asked here. I will happily pass it on.
John Murch
Dawlish, Devon
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