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Do you know who the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was? If not, nows your chance to learn all about her.  Her name was Bertha von Suttner, and she was a pacifist

The Red Cross: three-time recipient of the Peace Prize

LibriVox Menu Listen/Download (help?) Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldiers 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 Wo...