Book List: To End All Wars

Centered on a group of POW's in a Japanese prison camp during World War II, the great reviews I heard about this book lead me to find it and stick it on my shelf. It had been sitting for the last few months, with me not finding the time to read it until the speaker at church shared a story from it on Sunday. The recount was so impacting that I couldn't help but break out this book and change it's from "to read" to "being read".
Perhaps the story will encourage and challenge you as well:

"The day's work had ended; the tools were being counted, as usual. As the party was about to be dismissed, the Japanese guard shouted that a shovel was missing. He insisted that someone had stolen it... Striding up and down before the men, he ranted and denounced them for their wickedness, and most unforgivable of all their ingratitude to the Emperor. As he raved, he worked himself into a paranoid fury. Screaming in broken English, he demanded that the guilty one step forward to take his punishment. No one moved; the guard's rage reached new heights of violence.
'All die! All die!' he shrieked.
To show that he meant what he said, he cocked his rifle, put it to his shoulder and looked down the sights, ready to fire at the first man at the end of them.
At that moment, the Argyll (Scottish) stepped forward, stood stiffly to attention, and said calmly, 'I did it'.
The guard unleashed all his whipped-up hate; he kicked the helpless prisoner and beat him with his fists. Still the Argyll stood rigidly to attention, with the blood streaming down his face. His silence goaded the guard to an excess of rage. Seizing his rifle by the barrel, he lifted it high over his head and, with a final howl, brought it down on the skull of the Argyll, who sank limply to the ground and did not move. Although it was perfectly clear that he was dead, the guard continued to beat him and stopped only when exhausted.
The men of the work detail picked up their comrade's body, shouldered their tools and marched back to camp. When the tools were counted again at the guard-house no shovel was missing."

Of course, the Argyll didn't steal the shovel. He'd given up his life for his fellow soldiers. God give us the selfless love and sacrifice that man had.