Stephen Hole Fritchman: Men Of Liberty Ten Unitarian Pioneers (1944)

From SHF's intro. The Book's available for free now over at Internet Archive. (Now I have to figure our which kind of reader to read it on.)

It maybe asked why, in such a time, energy should
be taken from shipbuilding and crop harvesting (in which a
number of Unitarian ministers and Unitarian young
people were engaged) to prepare and publish information
on religious leaders in central Europe, England
and America so many years ago.

The answer lies closer to the immediate struggle
than may seem at first glance apparent. At almost
any hour of the day or night one may turn to one's
radio and pick up one's newspaper and be told that this
is a people's war, that it is a struggle for the Four
Freedoms freedom of speech, freedom of religion,
freedom from want and freedom from fear. "With
the needs of the people in contrast to the needs of a
single class or privileged group Unitarianism has again
and again concerned 'itself. With the final and ultimate
freedom of the unshackled human spirit our
founders have allied themselves, often at the cost of
life itself. To avoid the shortsightedness of a purely
contemporary viewpoint, to ledrn the story of the
adventure of hundreds of thousands of men and
women seeking such freedoms together in the past,
is to deepen our present faith. This is not only a
people's war for millions of citizens of many races
and many creeds at this hour; it is a step forward in a
people's struggle carried on for centuries past, carried
on often against terrifying odds, in the certainty that
victory would come to children still in cradles or yet
unborn. Of such a spirit were Servetus and Biddle,
Channing and Eiriksson, and the others presented on
these pages.