Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

About this film

LibriVox recording of Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling by Bertha von Suttner. (Translated by Timothy Holmes.) Read in English by volunteer readers. Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wife. The response to the book was worldwide; it became popular, and it can be described as the beginning of the peace movements of our times. Von Suttner received the Nobel Peace Prize - she was a candidate since the first award-ceremony (according to Alfred Nobel himself). She foresaw and watched the rise of the First World War, was warning and campaigning against it; but died before the beginning of WW1. Her friend for years, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alfred Fried, passed on her last words - they were the title of this book and a plea: „Die Waffen nieder! Sag’s vielen... vielen“ “Lay down the arms! Tell it to many... many” - Summary by schrm "Apart from its value as a work of fiction—great as that is—the book has a transcendent interest for the Society with which I am connected from its bearing on the question of war in general and of the present state of Europe in parti…

Directors & creators

Bertha von Suttner

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;fiction; science; Nobel Prize; peace; peace movement; bertha von suttner; suttner; nobel peace prize

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