All reviews ordered by date, with the most recent first:
- “The Big Book of Wisdom” review
by Larry CullifordPublished by Hero Press, 19th March 2020ISBN (Paperback): 9781789551211ISBN (Ebook): 9781789551228 Heather Speight This intriguing book is the work of ...Read more » - “Postnational Memory, Peace and War: Making Pasts Beyond Borders” reviewby Nigel YoungRoutledge, 2019. 364 pp, 64 illus Colin Archer Memory is now a specialised field of its own and the author ...Read more »
- “Cruel Britannia: a secret history of torture” reviewby Ian CobainPortobello Books, 2012 Lesley Docksey Cruel indeed. Some years ago I started to record the number of times government ministers claimed, ...Read more »
- “Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements” reviewby Cynthia CockburnPalgrave Macmillan, 2012 Sue Gilmurray No matter how passionately we loath war, there is a place for turning our critical ...Read more »
- “Deserters” reviewby Lars G. PeterssonDanish Resistance Museum Publishing, 2005also published as “Hitlers Fahnenflüchtige”, chipmunkapublishing, 2012 Annette Bygott In Germany during World War II, ...Read more »
- “Poetry of the Taliban” reviewed Alex Strick van Linschoten & Felix KuehnHurst & Company, 2012 Lesley Docksey The publication of this book was greeted by ill-informed ...Read more »
- “Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: the Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat” reviewAndrew BrownOxford University Press, 2011 Brian Heale Much of this book reads like a nightmare. Joseph Rotblat’s early life in Poland seems ...Read more »
- “When the World Outlawed War” reviewby David Swanson2011 ‘It has become a well-kept secret that war is illegal…’ So starts Swanson’s book When the World Outlawed ...Read more »
- “What Price Nuclear Blackmail?” reviewby Hugh BeachAbolition 2000 UK, 2011 This booklet, the ninth in a series of occasional papers on defence and disarmament issued ...Read more »
- “The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq” reviewby John GittingsOxford University Press, 2011 Lesley Docksey John Gittings has chosen a very broad subject – the development of ‘peace consciousness’ ...Read more »
- “The Eleventh Day: The Ultimate Account of 9/11” reviewAnthony Summers and Robbyn SwannDoubleday, 2011 Anniversaries provide a useful moment to stand back and reflect: this book enables one to ...Read more »
- “The Deaths of Others” reviewby John TirmanOxford University Press, 2011 This book, written by an American, and addressed to Americans, asks a highly uncomfortable question: ...Read more »
- “Failing Intelligence: The true story of how we were fooled into going to war in Iraq” reviewby Brian JonesBiteback, 2010 With Iraq, dodgy dossiers and David Kelly in mind, this book is a must-read. Brian Jones was ...Read more »
- “Voices Against War” reviewby Lyn SmithMainstream Publishing, 2010 (in association with the Imperial War Museum) I had been looking forward to this book since ...Read more »
- “The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel really wanted” reviewby Fredrik HeffermehlPraeger (USA), 2010 Norwegian lawyer Heffermehl clearly and convincingly demonstrates that almost from the beginning, but especially in post ...Read more »
- “Remember War Make Peace: services, reflections, prayers and readings for Remembrance Sunday” review
by David Adam, Nick Fawcett, Ray Simpson, Christine TitmusKevin Mayhew, 2010(with free CD) “Who is the slayer, who the victim? Speak.” ...Read more » - “The Buzzards of Zinn: a story of war and peace” reviewby George MillerMedlar Press, 2010 Jason Brockhurst is an intrepid British explorer. When he catches a glimpse of the mysterious city ...Read more »
- “The Secret Life of War – journeys through modern conflict” reviewby Peter BeaumontVintage Books, 2010 This is a must-read book, beautifully and honestly written. Peter Beaumont, as the Observer’s chief foreign ...Read more »
- “Newspeak in the 21st Century” reviewby David Edwards and David CromwellPluto Press, 2009 The authors run the Media Lens website, which challenges the unbalanced view of ...Read more »
- “The Uses and Abuses of History” reviewby Margaret MacmillanProfile Books Ltd (2009) The uses and abuses of history covered by Margaret MacMillan include the popularity and limitations ...Read more »
- “Wired for War: the robotics revolution and conflict in the twenty-first century” reviewby P. W. SingerPenguin (2009) Science fiction warfare is already with us for better or more probably for worse. Where does ...Read more »
- “The Green Zone: the environmental costs of militarism” review
by Barry SandersAK Press, 2009 Given the crisis of climate change, military carbon emissions are a matter of concern, but facts ...Read more » - “Adrian: Scotland celebrates Adrian Mitchell” reviewEdited by Chrys Salt and John Hudson, published by Markings Adrian Mitchell was one of the most respected and admired literary ...Read more »
- “A Million Bullets: the real story of the British Army in Afghanistan” reviewby James FergussonCorgi Books James Fergusson gives us a picture of the fighting in Afghanistan in 2006 that does not match ...Read more »
- “Lions, Donkeys & Dinosaurs – Waste and Blundering in the Military” reviewby Lewis PageArrow Books, 2007 Lewis Page had experience of all three arms of the Services, ending up in the Navy, ...Read more »
- “Surviving Climate Change: the struggle to avert global catastrophe” reviewed David Cromwell and Mark LevenePluto Press, 2007 This, the first multi-authored book from Crisis Forum, set up for the study ...Read more »
- “The Strange Death of David Kelly” reviewby Norman BakerMethuen, 2007 Following Andrew Gilligan’s report on the ‘sexed up’ evidence used in the ‘dodgy’ dossier, the furore in ...Read more »