Marthas Kinder

Martha Tilling lost her husband Friedrich to war. Instead of surrendering to grief, she transformed her pain into a crusade for universal disarmament and the establishment of international courts to prevent future bloodshed. Now she passes this sacred duty to her children. Her son Rudolf takes up his father's unfinished work, pushing even further by connecting the peace cause to the grinding social inequalities of the industrial age. Her daughter Sylvia demands something different entirely: the right to shape her own destiny. Written in 1901 by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bertha von Suttner, this sequel to 'Lay Down Your Arms' argues that peace cannot exist without freedom, and that the next generation must carry the fight forward, no matter how insurmountable the task seems. It is a family saga, a political manifesto, and an urgent plea for a world that refuses to learn from its own brutality.