Conscience be My Guide : An Anthology of Prison Writings

This remarkable collection of prison literature inspires with the eloquent idealism of prisoners of conscience through the ages. The contributors include many of the world's finest writers: Wole Soyinka, Primo Levi, Irina Ratushinskaya, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Henry Throeau. There are moving accounts from victims of the Holocaust, Soviet labor camps and psychiatric prisons, nuclear protestors, civil rights and anti-apartheid activists, anti-colonial nationalists and targets of religious persecution throughout history.

Geoffrey Bould is an active Quaker and was for many years a member of Amnesty International's Religious Affairs Panel.