New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of war objectors who were drafted during World War I - The Great War. The story focuses on a Kansas farm boy who objects to serving because "killing is wrong." As a result, he's a prisoner in the disclipinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, where he's subjected to a violent and degrading regime, but still manages to form a community with Mennonites from the Dakotas, wobblies and anarchists from Chicago and New York, and nerve cases from the front. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-871132540.