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The narrative follows a woman raised amid martial values whose life is altered by successive wars: courtship and marriage, early motherhood and widowhood, the return to family life, and another marriage. Through letters, visits to battlefields, hospital service, and domestic scenes, she records personal grief, encounters with wounded and bereaved, and growing disillusionment with militarism. Interleaving social vignettes, philosophical reflections, and chronological episodes from peacetime and campaigns, the account moves from youthful warlike enthusiasms to a committed critique of war and a plea for disarmament.

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Title: Disarm! Disarm!

Adapted from the German romance "Die waffen nieder"

Author: Bertha von Suttner

Adapter: Andrea Hofer Proudfoot

Release date: January 16, 2026 [eBook #77705]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914

Credits: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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DISARM! DISARM!

ADAPTED FROM THE GERMAN ROMANCE
DIE WAFFEN NIEDER
BY THE BARONESS BERTHA VON SUTTNER
BY
ANDREA HOFER-PROUDFOOT
POPULAR EDITION
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
Printed in 1914