by Larry CullifordPublished by Hero Press, 19th March 2020ISBN (Paperback): 9781789551211ISBN (Ebook): 9781789551228 Heather Speight This intriguing book is the work of a retired psychiatrist and Life Member of MAW. The title may be slightly disconcerting…but one is soon drawn in. Cultivating wisdom seems very relevant to MAW’s central message. …
by Nigel YoungRoutledge, 2019. 364 pp, 64 illus Colin Archer Memory is now a specialised field of its own and the author has spent much of his career deeply engaged in it, especially as it relates to modern war, genocide and mass violence – including nuclear weapons. Drawing on a …
by Ian CobainPortobello Books, 2012 Lesley Docksey Cruel indeed. Some years ago I started to record the number of times government ministers claimed, in statements to parliament, to the press and on air, that for instance; ‘the Government’s clear policy is not to participate in, solicit, encourage or condone the …
by Cynthia CockburnPalgrave Macmillan, 2012 Sue Gilmurray No matter how passionately we loath war, there is a place for turning our critical faculties on the peace movement and asking questions about what we do and how we might be more effective. Cynthia Cockburn provides a bracing look at a variety …
ed Alex Strick van Linschoten & Felix KuehnHurst & Company, 2012 Lesley Docksey The publication of this book was greeted by ill-informed rants from British generals on the Today programme and elsewhere, saying that the Taliban were ‘thugs’ who killed women, ignoring the fact that the Afghan war lords (and …
by Lars G. PeterssonDanish Resistance Museum Publishing, 2005also published as “Hitlers Fahnenflüchtige”, chipmunkapublishing, 2012 Annette Bygott In Germany during World War II, a careless remark, an anti-war entry in a diary, a kind gesture towards a Russian prisoner – all could be viewed as ‘aiding the enemy’ and prove fatal. …
Andrew BrownOxford University Press, 2011 Brian Heale Much of this book reads like a nightmare. Joseph Rotblat’s early life in Poland seems almost idyllic, of another world. The First World War soon destroyed this, and the consequences for his family were extreme hardship and threat to life. But Rotblat’s unusual …
by David Swanson2011 ‘It has become a well-kept secret that war is illegal…’ So starts Swanson’s book When the World Outlawed War, a clear, simply written but detailed description of how the Kellogg-Briand Pact came into being. So much hard work went into achieving it, and following the story laid …
by Hugh BeachAbolition 2000 UK, 2011 This booklet, the ninth in a series of occasional papers on defence and disarmament issued in memory of Frank Blackaby, is essential reading for anyone interested in the case for or against Trident. Its purpose is to examine the statement “we can only deter …
by John GittingsOxford University Press, 2011 Lesley Docksey John Gittings has chosen a very broad subject – the development of ‘peace consciousness’ from ancient Greece to the present day. He starts by looking at how Homer, rather than supporting the Trojan War, stresses the futility and violence of it. As …
