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Mennonite Soldier. by Ken Yoder Reed is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Mennonite Soldier. about?

Mastie and Ira Stoltzfus, Mennonite brothers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, face the draft in World War I. Ira chooses the traditional Mennonite position of conscientious objection to war. He refuses to cooperate with military officials at Ethan Allen Camp in Georgia, suffers repeated indignities, and is sentenced to 25 years in Ft. Leavenworth for refusing an officer's order to plant marigolds. Excommunicated from church, Mastie joins the Army against the wishes of his parents and his intimate Mennonite girlfriend, Annie. Following basic training, he is shipped to the front lines in France and mans a machine gun in battle with the Kaiser's troops. As the story shifts back and forth between Ira and Mastie, you will be caught up in a powerful examination of love and war, duty and conscience, and the starkly different experiences of two boys from the same Mennonite home.

Author

Ken Yoder Reed

Publisher

Scottdale, Pa., Herald Press

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780836117349

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Humanities