From a Washington Post review by David Perry headlined “Two new books about war imagine alternatives to righteous combat”:
As the United States lurched slowly into World War II, my grandfather Albert Q. Perry ran into trouble with his church for being a pacifist. Granddad was a Universalist minister, recently graduated from Tufts University, and holding his first pulpit in Essex, Mass. My dad and my uncle, neither of whom were old enough to remember directly, told me two different stories about what happened.
