Peace and Nonviolence Reading Lists
Books on Peace and Nonvoilence are a core part of the Housmans stock. The origins of Housmans are in the peace movement (and especially the pacifist end of the peace movement), though of course we carry a very wide range of radical, alternative and political literature – after all, part of the pacifist philosophy is to encourage the widest range of debate and discussion.
The peace section includes books (and pamphlets) dealing with all aspects of peace and anti-war campaigning – both against war in general and relating to specific wars – as well as texts dealing with disarmament, and with nonviolent approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution. We also have some material looking at “strategic thinking” at a governmental level, and there are many items dealing with particular sorts of weaponry – especially nuclear weapons. Coverage includes the philosophy, the practice and the history of anti-war campaigning and of both pacifist and non-pacifist peace movements.
Key theoreticians and practitioners of nonviolence and nonviolent action, such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, are well represented in terms of writings both by them and about them. We also have texts on the theory and practice of nonviolent action (including both direct action and civil disobedience) which cover actions in connection with other issues besides just anti-war campaigning; and we have material dealing with pacifist communities and nonviolent lifestyles.
Because this section is such a speciality, and many important texts are long out of print, then in order to provide the widest range of relevant material we have included many secondhand books. These books are integrated with the new books in the sorting of material on the shelves and in these lists. This is the only category of the shop’s stock where significant amounts of secondhand stock is integrated in this way.
The section is subdivided to help users find their way around the hundreds of titles available – see the categories below, with links to the individual lists.
The following reading lists are hoped to be valuable as a source of information, as well as offering a suggestion of the kind of books you might find on the shelves at Housmans! Please note: inclusion on these reading lists DOES NOT mean that the books will be in stock at Housmans any more.
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Key/recommended texts
The list below highlights a selection from our current stock – it shows key works in the fields of peace, nonviolence and nonviolent action which are recommended by Housmans. The section includes both recent publications as well as some older texts. The titles shown here are also generally included in the relevant topic list.
A Force More Powerful Peter Ackerman (Palgrave Books, 2007) hbk £9.95 (reduced from £16.00) Stories of how ordinary people took extraordinary action – a tour de force.
Gandhi – Prisoner of Hope Judith M Brown(Yale University Press, 1998) pbk £15.95 The definitive biography.
People Power and Protest Since 1945 –A Bibliography of Nonviolent ActionApril Carter, Howard Clark and Michael Randle(Housmans, 2006)pbk now £1.50 (was £8.50)Annotated listing of almost 1000 sources – an essential for both serious activists and researchers. Now includes a 2007 Supplement.
A Guide to Civil Resistance: A Bibliography of People Power and Nonviolent Protest – Volume One(Eds) April Carter, Howard Clark and Michael Randle(Green Print, 2013)pbk £10.00An annotated bibliography of almost 1000 references, covering the theory and practice of nonviolent resistance. It is a substantially revised and expanded versiion of (part of) People Power and Protest Since 1945 – A Bibliography of Nonviolent Action, by the same editors, which was published by Housmans in 2006.
Peace Movements – International Protest and World Politics Since 1945April Carter(Longman Group, Harlow, 1992)pbk £15.00A scholarly overview of this area during the Cold War. The author manages to fit in a surprisingly detailed and accurate survey of almost half a century of peace campaigning, with reasonably representative coverage of most parts of the world, though with particular coverage of British campaigns. The author is much more perceptive about the defining differences between various sorts of peace campaigners than are many other authors.
Making Nonviolent RevolutionHoward Clark(Peace News, London, 2012)pbk £3.00A reprint, with afterword, of the classic Peace News supplement from 1978.
Anti-Militarism – Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace MovementsCynthia Cockburn(Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012)pbk £19.99Looking at the cohesiveness and coherence of peace movements, the author presents original case studies of anti-war, anti-militarist and peace campaigns, in Japan, South Korea, Spain, Uganda, and the UK.
Mahatma Gandhi – Nonviolent Power in ActionDennis Dalton(Columbia University Press, New York, 2000)pbk £14.50An intellectually satisfying analysis of the Gandhian concepts of satyagraha and swaraj, the book also deals with the trenchant criticisms of Gandhi’s methods by his contemporaries.
The Conquest of Violence: An Essay on War and RevolutionBart de Ligt(Pluto Press, 1989)pbk £9.50First published in English in 1937, this is a classic textbook of nonviolent revolution and direct action against war and war preparation. With an introduction by Aldous Huxley, and an introduction to this edition by Peter Van Den Dungen.
Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns(Ed) Andrew Dey(War Resisters’ International, London, 2014)
pbk £6.99The new second edition of a publication already translated into a dozen other languages.
Globalization & Militarism: Feminists Make the LinkCynthia Enloe(Rowman & Littlefield, Plymouth, 2007)pbk £15.95Deals with the patriarchal norm which underpins masculine military solutions, and reminds readers of varied and creative acts of resistance.
Maneuvers – The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s LivesCynthia Enloe(University of California Press, 2000)pbk £19.95 Looks incisively at how militarisation affects far more than the obvious people, dealing with many different women’s stories and experiences.
Piecing it Together: Feminism & Nonviolence(Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group, Buckleigh, Devon, 1983)pbk £4.50Still a classic. Housmans has now found some brand-new copies of this essential then, and valuable now, introduction to this topic.
From Pacification to Peacebuilding – A Call to Global TransformationDiana Francis(Pluto Press, London, 2010)pbk £18.99Drawing on the traditions of nonviolence and pacifism, and interpreting them in the light of new situations and experience, the author shows why we must break with the sterile ineffectuality of top-down approaches.
People, Peace and Power: Conflict Transformation in ActionDiana Francis(Pluto, 2002)
hbk £34.95″It is time for the right location and exercise of power to be re-examined … never before has there been a greater need to demythologise violence.” – from the Preface.
Selected Political WritingsMahatma Gandhi (Edited, with Introduction, by Dennis Dalton)(Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis, USA, 1996)pbk £9.95The first collection of Gandhi’s writings to be based on the complete edition of his works, this volume presents Gandhi’s most important political writings arranged around two central themes of his politics – satyagraha (the power of nonviolence) and swaraj (freedom).
Nonviolent Responses to TerrorismTom H Hastings(McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, USA, 2004)pbk £36.50An outline of some of the best thinking about nonviolent repsonses to terrorism, dealing with both immediate responses (such as mediations, citizen initiatives, international law, etc) and long-term resposnes (including stopping the flow of arms, building sustainability and justice, conflict education, and use of the media).
Power – Nonviolent Transformation from the Transpersonal to the TransnationalTom H Hastings(Hamilton Books, Maryland, USA, 2005)pbk £24.95The author presents an overview of nonviolent power potential, examining it on many levels, and providing theories and historical records of noniolent power.
Toward a Living Revolution – A five-stage framework for creating radical social changeGeorge Lakey(Peace News, London, 2012)pbk £15.00A welcome reprint of the 1987 edition of this largely timeless book – with even earlier origins – by one of the USA’s most significant thinkers and writers and espousers of revolutionary nonviolence. (He has a lot to do with why the pacifist paper Peace News has had its “for nonviolent revolution” subtitle for the last 40 years.) With a new chapter in the form of a Forward to this edition.
The Moral Imagination – The Art and Soul of Building PeaceJohn Paul Lederach(OUP, 2010)pbk £12.99Insights, stories and metaphors that captivate the moral imagination; inspiring and uplifting.
Unarmed Bodyguards – International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human RightsLiam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren(Kumarian Press, 1997)pbk £20.00An inspirational story, focusing especially on the role of Peace Brigades International in Guatemala.
Uprooting WarBrian Martin(Freedom Press, London, 1984)pbk £2.00 (currently reduced from £6.00)Discusses resisting war whilst undermining the institutions of the warfare state which promote war.
Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of BackfireBrian Martin(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Maryland, USA, 2007)pbk £21.95Another fine book from this author, relating academic ideas to real-life experiences, showing how popular outrage at state or corporate crimes can be constructively developed. This will be especially welcomed by anyone who heard Brian’s presentations on this theme at the WRI’s 2006 Triennial conference in Germany.
War Prevention Works – 50 stories of people resolving conflictDylan Mathews(Oxford Research Group, Oxford, 2001)pbk £6.50Highlights the tools and techniques used by ordinary people to help resolve conflicts around the world.
| Doing Democracy: the MAP Model for Organizing Social MovementsBill Moyer(New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2001)pbk £11.99Argues that the apparent ups and downs of a social movement’s fortunes follow a pattern which can be used to plan and carry out more effective social action. |
| The Unconquerable World: Why peaceful protest is stronger than warJonathan Schell(Penguin, 2005)pbk £8.99An eloquent presentation of the idea that war has become dysfunctional as a political instrument. Optimistic, pragmatic and compelling. |
| Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in NondemocraciesKurt Schock(University of Minnesota Press, 2005)pbk £16.00Looks at how People Power has promoted regime change in some countries but not in others: it provides insights into the power of nonviolent action. |
| Social Power and Political FreedomGene Sharp(Porter Sargent, Boston, USA, 1980)pbk £8.95A famous collection of Gene Sharp’s thoughtful writings – spanning a wide field. |
| How Nonviolent Struggle WorksGene Sharp(Albert Einstein Institution, East Boston, USA, 2013)pbk £9.95A pocket-sized summary of some key aspects of the writings of “the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare”. |
| The Politics of Nonviolent Action – Part One: Power and StruggleGene Sharp(Porter Sargent, Boston, USA, 2012)pbk £19.99The latest reprint of the first part of Gene Sharp’s three-volume tour de force first published in 1973 – a set of books which every self-respecting nonviolent revolutionary had by their bedside 40 years ago and which it’s great to have all in print again. This first part systematically analyses the nature and control of political power, and looks at methods of nonviolent action as an effective technique of struggle. |
| The Politics of Nonviolent Action – Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent ActionGene Sharp(Porter Sargent, Boston, USA, 2012)pbk £10.95This second part of Gene Sharp’s famous three-volume work covers what the author calls political jiu-jitsu. It gives detailed explanations of Gene Sharp’s famous list of 198 nonviolent methods. |
| The Politics of Nonviolent Action – Part Three: The Dynamics of Nonviolent ActionGene Sharp(Porter Sargent, Boston, USA, 2012)pbk £13.99The final part of Gene Sharp’s 1973 classic analyses in detail the various phases of nonviolent action, looking at planning and strategy; it includes chapters on repression and solidarity, and the ways that power may ultimately be redistributed. |
| From Dictatorship to Democracy – A Conceptual Framework for LiberationGene Sharp(Housmans, 2011)pbk £5.95A reprint – with a new preface by Michael Randle – of this classic text which has been used in many countries by groups struggling nonviolently to overthrow dictatorships. Alongside his strategic insistence on nonviolent methods, the author shatters the illusion that the only alternatives are armed struggle or acquiesence. |
| Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century PotentialGene Sharp(Extending Horizons Books, Boston, USA, 2007) pbk £18.00Not only useful for students, this latest work from one of the most important writers on the practicalities of nonviolent struggle will be a “must read” for individuals and groups involved in campaigns which aspire to nonviolence. |
| How to Start a Revolution (DVD)£12.90The story of the life and work of Gene Sharp; the story of the power of people to change their world. |
| Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East(Ed) Maria J Stephan(Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009) pbk £19.50 (reduced from £20.99)Explores the rich but little-known history of nonviolent civilian-led struggles for rights and freedoms in many parts of the region – even before the uprisings of early 2011. |
| Government is Violence – Essays on Anarchism and PacifismLeo Tolstoy, Edited and introduced by David Stephens(Phoenix Press, London, 1990) pbk £7.95A key collection, which still fills what is otherwise a major gap in available material by Tolstoy. Includes brief but useful notes, and a list of further reading. |
New and recent publications
This list highlights items which have been published, re-published, re-issued, or which have become newly available, within the last few years. Titles shown here are also generally included in the relevant topic list.
| Gandhi the Organiser. How he shaped a nationwide rebellion: India 1915-1922 (Paperback) Bob Overy (Irene Publishing, 2019) £18 Looks at how highly controversial campaigns of civil disobedience were matched with non-contentious campaigns of constructive work, to help to build self-reliance and pride in those who were active in the struggle, as well as in those who were not. |
| Cunning Plans: Tommy Atkins’ hidden tactics to avoid combat on the Western Front in WW1- or Why “Blackadder Goes Forth”Roger Ball(Past Tense, London, 2015)pmphlt £2.50Beginning to lift the lid on the hidden resistance. But could have been a lot funnier – and more subversive. |
| In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and PalestineGershon Baskin(Vanderbilt University Press, 2017)hbkThe author’s 38 years as a peace activist, as he moved from the USA, to an Israeli kibbutz, and then lived for two years in a Palestinian village. A record of years of attempts to improve mutual understanding. |
| Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our LivesJoanna Bourke(Virago, London, 2014)hbk £14.50 (reduced from £20.00)Looks at the bluring of entertainment and violence as “militainment”, and how military practices, language and symbols invade our everyday lives. |
| Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our LivesJoanna Bourke(Virago, London, 2015)pbk £12.99Looks at the bluring of entertainment and violence as “militainment”, and how military practices, language and symbols invade our everyday lives. |
| Fleeing from the Fuhrer – A Postal History of Refugees from the NazisCharmian Brinson & William Kaczynski(The History Press, Stroud, 2015)pbk £14.99Correspondence which shows the incredible nature of this worldwide emigration and the indomitable spirit of these refugees. |
| My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter PearsAldeburgh Studies in Music(Boydell Press, 2016)hbk £16.99The complete surviving correspondence between the two pacifist musicians, giving insight into their work and their relationship. |
| We Kill Because We Can – From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone AgeLaurie Calhoun(Zed Books, London, 2015)hbk £16.99Dissecting the moral, psychological and cultural impact of remote-control killing. Can a drone operator be likened to a mafia hitman? |
| A Guide to Civil Resistance: A Bibliography of People Power and Nonviolent Protest – Volume One(Eds) April Carter, Howard Clark and Michael Randle(Green Print, 2013)pbk £10.00An annotated bibliography of almost 1000 references, covering the theory and practice of nonviolent resistance. It is a substantially revised and expanded versiion of (part of) People Power and Protest Since 1945 – A Bibliography of Nonviolent Action, by the same editors, which was published by Housmans in 2006. |
| Drone TheoryGregoire Chamayou(Penguin Books, London, 2015)pbk £6.99This book is a vigorous polemic against the use of robot warfare around the world; it draws on philosophical debate, moral lessons from Greek mythology, and transcripts of conversations between drone operators, and re-evaluates the socio-political impact of drone warfare. |
| Why Civil Resistance Works – The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent ConflictErica Chenoweth & Maria J Stephan(Columbia University Press, New York, USA, 2013)pbk £14.99Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries, the authors detail the factors enabling nonviolent struggles to succeed – or to fail. They conclude that the successful use of nonviolent resistance leads to more durable democracies, which are also less likely to regress into civil war. |
| How to Survive an Atomic Attack: A Cold War Manual(Ed) John Christopher(Amberley, Stroud, 2014)pbk £9.99This compilation – which will be startling to many who never lived through the height of the Cold War era – includes reprints of various of the official US advice booklets issued in the 1950s and 1960s. Of course, as with the equivalent British publications, the stark warnings of what “survivial” might mean had the effect of encouraging many people to oppose their government’s reliance on the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction. |
| Kill Chain – Drones and the Rise of High-Tech AssassinsAndrew Cockburn(Verso, London, 2016)pbk £9.99An essential history of drone warfare, revealing the powerful interests which turned the Pentagon towards remote control killing. |
| Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues(Ed) Marjorie Cohn(Olive Branch Press, Northampton, Mass, USA, 2015)pbk £15.99Expert analysis, including documentation of civilian casualities by leading campaigns in the field, details of legal cases, and a look at the domestic use of drones. |
| Can War be Eliminated?Christopher Coker(Polity Press, Cambridge, 2014)pbk £9.99A philosopher of war looks at the embeddedeness of war in our cultures. He suggests there is an inconvenient truth that we will not see the end of war until is exhausts its own evolutionary possibilities. |
| Civil Society, Peace and Power – Peace and Security in the 21st CenturyDavid Cortright(Rowan & Littlefield, 2016)pbk £24.95Case studies demonstrating the growth of civil society activism in national, regional and international peacebuilding. The focus is not on strictly nonviolent struggles (perhaps not surprising from this author), but on approaches combining actions by civil society, governmental organisations and even “security” forces. |
| Ireland’s Guantanamo GrannyMargaretta D’Arcy(Women’s Pirate Press, Galway, Ireland, 2015)pbk £10.00What’s a peace-loving granny to do when she finds that her supposedly neutral state is being used by the US to aid their wars and torture? This is a first-hand account of her struggle to open a debate about the misuse of Shannon Airport. |
| Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed ResistanceMarwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby(Pluto Press, London, 2015) pbk £15.00An overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil popular resistance by Palestinians. The focus is on the contemporary resistance in the Occupied Territories, but there is a review of the thread of civil resistance throughout the Palestinian struggle. |
| Choosing Peace: The Catholic Church Returns to Gospel NonviolenceMarie Dennis(Orbis Books, 2018) pbk £20.00This book argues that in recent years the more progressive parts of the Catholic Church have refocussed on traditions of nonviolence and peacebuilding, in place of traditional Just War teachings. |
| Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns(Ed) Andrew Dey(War Resisters’ International, London, 2014) pbk £6.99The new second edition of a publication already translated into a dozen other languages. |
| Piecing it Together: Feminism & Nonviolence(Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group, Buckleigh, Devon, 1983)pbk £4.50Still a classic. Housmans has now found some brand-new copies of this essential then, and valuable now, introduction to this topic. |
| Anne Frank – The Definitive Edition(Eds) Otto H Frank and Mirjam Pressler(Penguin Books, London, 2012)pbk £8.99This is a slightly updated edition of the standard work originally published in 1995, including the full text of the famous diaries. |
| Holding Faith – Creating Peace in a Violent WorldDavid Gee(Quaker Books, London, 2011)pbk £8.00The writer looks at what a commitment to peace might mean in a violent world; he argues for a “practical faith” that empowers our humanity. |
| The Glorious Art of Peace – From the Iliad to IraqJohn Gittings(OUP, Oxford, 2012)hbk £18.99This study demolishes the myth that peace is dull and that war is “in our genes”; it opens an alternative window on history. The author urges us to pay more attention to, for example, Erasmus on the Art of Peace rather than Machiavelli on the “Art of War”. |
| Soldier Box – Why I Won’t Return to the War on TerrorJoe Glenton(Verso, London, 2013)pbk £12.99After a deployment to Afghanistan, what he had seen left the author disillusioned; he refused a second tour and left Britain. He returned to fight charges of desertion, and continued to speak out. |
| Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving PeaceMatthew Green(Portobello Books, London, 2015)hbk £17.99What happens to troops sent to foreign countries when they get back home? The reality of their return. |
| A Thorn in Their SideRobert Green with Kate Dewes(John Blake Publishing, London, 2013)pbk £7.99The story of Hilda Murrell, an elderly anti-nuclear campaigner (and aunt of a naval Commander on a nuclear weapons submarine at the time of the Falklands War) who was murdered in mysterious circumstances in 1984. |
| A Short History of Nuclear Folly – Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-upsRudolph Herzog(Melville House, New York, 2013)hbk £18.99A sardonic people’s history, covering some of the lesser-known horror stories, and near-horror stories, of the nuclear age. Well researched, and illuminating even for long-time anti-nuclear campaigners. |
| To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided BritainAdam Hochschild(Pan Macmillan, London, 2012)pbk £9.99An in-depth narrative telling of the many people in Britain – not only pacifists – opposing the First World War. “Written like a novel; I couldn’t put it down.” |
| Towards Ending War – A RecipeRobert Hinde(Movement for the Abolition of War, London, 2014)pmphlt £4.00A former World War Two pilot looks optimistically to the future. |
| Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms TradePaul Holden(Zed Press, London, 2017)pbk £9.99Although the work of arms trade campaigners in Britain has – over several decades – largely won the debate in progressive circles, there are still many people who believe the common justifications for the arms trade. This book – without taking a fully pacifist poistion – demolishes the myths about the value of the arms trade for the economy, trade, “securuity” and so on. A useful handbook for those wanting to argue the anti-arms trade case. |
| CND at 60Kate Hudson(Public Reading Rooms, London, 2018)pbk £12.95This book, by CND General Secretary Kate Hudson, is the inside story of six decades of a long-running (and still all-too-necessary) peace organisaton. A timely publication, coinciding with the recent UN call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons. |
| Tribe: On Homecoming and BelongingSebastian Junger(Twelve, 2016)hbk £18.99The primitive tribalism that underpins military life, and the implications for veterans. |
| Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on TerrorMatt Kennard(Verso, London, 2012)hbk £16.99The book includes extensive interviews with extremist veterans and leaders of far-right hate groups; it links some of the miliitary’s worst crimes (apart from being a military at all, of course) with this opening up of the US military. |
| Conscientious Objectors of the Second World War – Refusing to FightAnn Kramer(Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013)hbk £19.99A well-researched look at the subject of Second World War COs in Britain – including some pre-war background – covering what they did and said, and what happend to them. A pity that the indexer has spoiled a good job by the use of not just grating, but misleading, US English. |
| Toward a Living Revolution – A five-stage framework for creating radical social changeGeorge Lakey(Peace News, London, 2012)pbk £15.00A welcome reprint of the 1987 edition of this largely timeless book – with even earlier origins – by one of the USA’s most significant thinkers and writers and espousers of revolutionary nonviolence. (He has a lot to do with why the pacifist paper Peace News has had its “for nonviolent revolution” subtitle for the last 40 years.) With a new chapter in the form of a Forward to this edition. |
| Investment in Blood – The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan WarFrank Ledwidge(Yale University Press, London, 2013)hbk £18.99A well-researched investigation with good coverage of the plight of the major victims – Afghan civiliians. |
| Israelis and Palestinians – Conflict and ResolutionMoshe Machover(Haymarket Books, Chicago, USA, 2012)pbk £17.99A collection of inspiring essays written during a period of more than 40 years by an Israeli activist (and mathematician). His writing is informed by the insistence that he is “not an Israeli peace activist”, since his analysis of the situation is not one of a conflict to which it is necessary to bring peace; rather, it is a situation of colonisation. Hence, in the author’s view, peace is an outcome of liberation, not its starting point. |
| Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb TestsNic Maclellan(ANU Press, 2017)pbk £17.99The story of the 1950s series of British tests, and the history of that as reflected in the experiences of the Pacific islands and of the military veterans. |
| We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America(Eds) Elizabeth Betita Martinez, Matt Meyer, and Mandy Carter(PM Press, Oakland, California, USA, 2012)pbk £21.99This inspiring 600-page collection of writings – both classic and more recent – looks at the struggles still needing to happen against the state of affairs in the USA. And because of the influence of that empire on us all, these strugglers are of relevance to us all. |
| The Economics of KillingVijay Mehta(Pluto Press, London, 2012)pbk £14.99How the power of global elites, entrenched under globalisation, has created a deadly cycle of violence. |
| The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britakn’s Rush to War in 1914Douglas Newton(Verso, London, 2015)pbk £9.99The British declaration of war was a result of dishonesty and wilfull belligerence, this book argues, not a “defence” of a threatened ally. |
| The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma GandhiMakarand R Paranjape(Routledge, 2017)pbkThe author asks whether the whole ideology of Hindu nationalism – rather than a lone fanatic – was responsible for the death of Gandhi. And does his death continue to haunt India, where many now consider him irrelevant? |
| Nonviolent Resistance to the NazisGeorge Paxton(YouCaxton Publications, 2016)pbk £10.00The first such collection of these stories to have been published for a long time. Full of thought-provoking examples of publicly and nonviolenlty resisting tyranny. |
| Hitler’s Deserters: When Law Merged with TerrorLars BG Petersson(Fonthill Media, London, 2013)hbk £18.99The story of the fate of those who refused to fight for the Third Reich – and a post-war society that turned its back on them. |
| None of Us Were Like This Before – American Soldiers and TortureJoshua ES Phillips(Verso, London, 2012)pbk £9.99A US reporter, writing about the widespread use of torture by that country’s troops, discusses how they were “psychologically scarred by the abuse they had meted out to Iraqi prisoners”. |
| The Better Angels of Our NatureSteven Pinker(Penguin, London, 2012)pbk £12.99Weaving together psychology and history, the author presents a plausible case that human civilisation’s progress has been such that war and other forms of violence have been – in the long term – steadily decreasing. However, when looking at why (on an inter-state scale) this might be, he tries to overcome “the pacifist’s dilemma” – based on the same negative-sum paradox as the classic logical puzzle of “the prisoner’s dilemma” – by positing various subtle theories, but not the obvious one: namely that pacifism is not the same as non-resistance, nor the acceptance of “defeat”, nor an absence of effective struggle. |
| Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World WarAnne Powell(The History Press, Stroud, 2013)pbk £12.99Based on extracts from first-hand accounts, the book covers the experiences of British female medical personnel all over Europe during the First World War. |
| How to Look Good in a War – Justifying and Challenging State ViolenceBrian Rappert(Pluto Press, London, 2012)pbk £17.99The book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. It deals with the way pro-war narratives are constructed, and considers how ignorance of the operation of war is produced. |
| Evolving the Spirit: From Democracy to Peace – Ten Steps to Change the WorldAnthony Russell(DreamStar Books, 2012)pbk £12.95The book attempts to confront that notion that we are helpless in the face of problems around us; though – despite some interesting ideas – its prescriptions and its insights are largely only intelligble to those of a religious bent. |
| The Liberal Defence of MurderRichard Seymour(Verso, London, 2012)pbk £12.99A powerful critique of “humanitarian intervention” and its supporters; looks at the history of liberal justifications of conquest. An updated version of an earlier 2008 book. |
| Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century PotentialGene Sharp(Extending Horizons Books, Boston, USA, 2007) pbk £16.95Not only useful for students, this latest work from one of the most important writers on the practicalities of nonviolent struggle will be a “must read” for individuals and groups involved in campaigns which aspire to nonviolence. |
| From Dictatorship to Democracy – A Conceptual Framework for LiberationGene Sharp(Housmans, 2011)pbk £5.95A reprint – with a new preface by Michael Randle – of this classic text which has been used in many countries by groups struggling nonviolently to overthrow dictatorships. Alongside his strategic insistence on nonviolent methods, the author shatters the illusion that the only alternatives are armed struggle or acquiesence. |
| Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarSusan Southard(Sounvenir Press, London, 2017)pbk £15.00The author has spent a decade interviewing and researching the lives of the survivors, collecting eye-witness accounts. The story is told through the lives of five teenage survivors from 1945 to the present day. |
| Stop the War – A Graphic History(Foreward by Tony Benn)(Francis Boutle Publishers, London, 2011) pbk £20.00A pictorial history of the mass movement against the attack on Iraqis. |
| War is a LieDavid Swanson(Biteback Publishing, London, 2011) pbk £12.99The author deconstructs the main reasons put forward in favour of war. A fine set of arguments, and some great polemic. Though – speaking primarily in a US context – he fails to get fully beyond the idea that the state itself can be democratised so as to make war history. The biggest gap in the book is its lack of connection with the many organisations full of people who already know that wars are obsolete and avoidable; so readers inspired by his ideas are given insufficient realistic idea as to what to do once they’re persuaded. |
| A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance WorksStellan Vinthagen(Zed Books, London, 2015) pbkThe author – also an experienced activist – has produced a ground-breaking and much-needed addition to this field. Perhaps the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action since Gene Sharp’s seminal The Politics of Nonviolent Action in 1973. |
| The Truth About Trident – Disarming the Nuclear ArgumentTimmon Milne Wallis(Luath Press, 2016) pbk £10.00Long-time activist Tim Wallis has produced an amazingly comprehensive book on the topic of nuclear weapons, eloquently putting the many arguments against the official line. |
| Fates Worse than DeathKurt Vonnegut Jr(Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Nottingham, 1985) pmphlt £2.00The author made a speech, of which this is the text, in the USA in May 1982, and sent the text as his contribution to the inaugural European Nuclear Disarmament Convention which took place the next month. Copies of this classic little pamphlet have recently come to light. |
| Peace and Conflict Studies – A Reader(Eds) Charles P Webel and Jorgen Johansen(Routledge, Abingdon, 2012)pbk £29.99A broad collection, dealing with – inter alia – what is meant by peace research and peace education, the nature of conflict, prevention of conflict, nonviolent action, and building cultures of peace. Includes some classic material. |
| The Least of All Possible Evils – Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to GazaEyal Weizman(Verso, London, 2011)hbk £16.99A set of essays dealing with the complexities of understanding violence. Takes the reader into the heart of contemporary necro-politics, examining the dark side of the so-called pragamatism of “the lesser evil”. A forensic-architectural investigation of sites of contemporary conflict. |
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Topic 1: Pacifism and nonviolence
This section has material on: pacifism and anti-militarism; conscientous objection and conscription; nonviolence theory; organising nonviolent activism, and mobilising for nonviolent revolution; alternative/civilian-based defence; and both nonviolent civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action (including NVDA training).
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| A Force More PowerfulPeter Ackerman(Palgrave Books, 2007)Stories of how ordinary people took extraordinary action – a tour de force.hbk £9.95 (reduced from £16.00)Also available: A Force More Powerful DVD With 2-and-a-half hours of material relating to the themes of the book, including coverage of nonviolent struggles in the USA, India, South Africa, Denmark, Poland and Chile. £7.50 |
| Peace Together: A Vision of Christian Pacifism(Ed) Clive Barrett(James Clarke & Co, 1987)pbk £6.99 |
| We Will Not Cease: The Autobiography of a Conscientous ObjectorArchibald Baxter(Cape Catley, Whatamongo Bay, New Zealand, 1983)pbk £2.00 |
| Alternative to War: An outline of the alternative practical method which must be adopted before war can be abolishedRG Bell(James Clarke & Co, London, 1959)An “olde worlde”-style call for nonviolent action (“active non-violent resistance”)in national and international struggles. Quaint, even for its time, in its refusal to accept a definition of “pacifism” as something which itself can encompass nonviolent direct action.pbk £4.00 |
| Telling Tales About Men: Conceptions of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service During the First World WarLois S Bibbings(Manchester University press, 2009)A brilliant exposure of the contradictions of manliness in wartime.hbk £27.50 (publisher’s price £55.00) |
| Nonviolence and Liberation – A SymposiumHarold Bing, Hilda Morris, WRI, Fred Moorhouse, Cesar Chavez & Jean Van Lierde(Peace Pledge Union, 1969)Fascinating – and in many ways timeless – articles by pacifists from a variety of iedological and national backgrounds, from a Gandhian US trade unionist to a Belgian revolutionary anti-colonialist socialist.pmphlt £5.00 |
| War Without Weapons – Non-Violence in National DefenceAnders Boserup and Andrew Mack(Frances Pinter, London, 1974)Written in the light of the nuclearisation of the military strategies of major military powers, this ground-breaking and wide-ranging survery of the field deals with methods, organisational problems, and the use of non-violent methods in the face of military coups and of occupations, as well as its use as deterrence.pbk £7.50 |
| One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World WarVera Brittain(Continuum, 2005)This book reprints, for the first time, Vera Brittain’s 194HHumilitation with Honour, and her 1944 denunciation of the Allies’ policy of saturation bombing, Seed of Chaos.pbk £7.99 (currently reduced from £9.99) |
| Testament of YouthVera Brittain(Virago, London, 2007)One of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, by the woman who was one of the 20th Century’s most significant pacifist writers.pbk £12.99 |
| Pacifism in the Twentieth CenturyPeter Brock and Nigel Young(Syracuse University Press, USA, 1999)A key survey of the history of pacifism – a standard work for students of the field.pbk £9.95 |
| Hammered by the Irish: How the Pitstop Ploughshares disabled a US WarplaneHarry Browne(CounterPunch, California, USA, 2008)The story of nonviolent direct action in Shannon in 2003. With an introduction by Daniel Berrigan.pbk £13.00 |
| From Violence to Wholeness – A Ten-Part Process in the Spirituality and Practice of Active NonviolenceKen Butigan(Pace e Bene Press, USA, 2002)Although much of the material is religiously based, this includes readings and exercises of general use in nonviolence training.pbk £14.00 |
| People Power and Protest Since 1945: A Bibliography of Nonviolent ActionApril Carter, Howard Clark and Michael Randle(Housmans, 2006)Annotated listing of almost 1000 sources – an essential for both serious activists and researchers. Includes a 2007 Supplement.pbk £8.50 |
| Nonviolent Action – a selected bibliographyApril Carter, David Hoggett & Adam Roberts(Housmans, 1970)pbk £1.50 |
| Letters of a Prisoner For Conscience SakeT Corder Catchpool(The Friends Book Centre, 1972)pbk £2.50 |
| On Two FrontsT Corder Catchpool(Headley Brothers Publishers, 1971)A 1971 reprint of the 1918 original.pbk £2.00 |
| Why Civil Resistance Works – The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent ConflictErica Chenoweth & Maria J Stephan(Columbia University Press, New York, USA, 2013)Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specificcountries, the authors detail the factors enabling nonviolent struggles to succeed – or to fail. They conclude that the successful use of nonviolent resistance leads to more durable democracies, which are also less likely to regress into civil war.pbk £14.99 |
| Articles of Peace – celebrating fifty years of Peace News(Eds) Gail Chester and Andrew Rigby(Prism Press, Bridport, Dorest, 1986)Taking a contemporaneous look at some of the key issues covered by PNduring its first 50 years – relating these issues to the paper’s coverage, but not primarily a history of PN.pbk £7.50 |
| Conscientious Objection – Resisting Militarized SocietyOzgur Heval Cinar and Coskun Usterci(Zed Books, 2009)A wide-ranging and informative study of contemporary conscientious objection in Turkey. Dealing with patriarchy and social militarisation, the book firmly places objection in the context of social transformation.pbk £14.99 |
| Making Nonviolent RevolutionHoward Clark(Peace News, London, 2012)A reprint, with afterword, of the classic Peace News supplement from 1978.pbk £3.00 |
| People Power – Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity(Ed) Howard Clark(Pluto Press, London, 2009)The contributors place nonviolent struggles in an international context, without shying away from difficult debates.pbk £15.00 |
| Preparing for Nonviolent Direct ActionHoward Clark(Peace News / CND, 1984)pbk £4.50 |
| Civil Disobedience – Conscience, Tactics, and the LawCarl Cohen(Columbia University Press, new York, USA, 1971)The author defends activists against many of the arguments of their cricits; but he also criticises poor arguments in favour of civil disobedience – including those based on the Nuremberg Judgements. His definition of civil disobedience is closer to the normal British one than is common in US writing, ie he excludes direct action which doesn’t include deliberate breaking of a law.pbk £5.00 |
| Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for a New Political AgeDavid Cortright(Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 2009)An interesting mixture of historical coverage and setting out some principles of nonviolent action. However, only a small proportion of the book deals directly with applying these ideas to the current world situation. Some of his attempts to distinguish between nonviolence and pacifism will be controversial.pbk £16.99 |
| Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed ResistanceMarwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby(Pluto Press, London, 2015)An overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil popular resistance by Palestinians. The focus is on the contemporary resistance in the Occupied Territories, but there is a review of the thread of civil resistance throughout the Palestinian struggle.pbk £15.00 |
| The Conquest of Violence: An Essay on War and RevolutionBart de Ligt(Pluto Press, 1989)First published in English in 1937, this is a classic textbook of nonviolent revolution and direct action against war and war preparation. With an introduction by Aldous Huxley, and an introduction to this edition by Peter Van Den Dungen.pbk £9.50 |
| Why I am Still a PacifistCatherina de Ligt, Laurence Housman, & others(Peace Pledge Union, London, 1946)Some well-known figures, largely literary & artistic, confirm their pacifism in the wake of the end of World War 2.pmphlt £5.00 |
| Active Nonviolence Across the WorldRichard Deats(Fellowship of Reconciliation, Oxford, 2010)Highlights of four decades of the history of nonviolent struggle.pmphlt £3.50 |
| Conscientious Objection to Compulsory Military Service(Directorate General of Human Rights, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, 2002)A brief guide to the legal situation – and to how to find out more – from one of the slightly more enlightened parts of officialdom. (The European Court of Human Rights is, of course, a product of the CoE.)pmphlt £1.00 |
| The Non-Violent Cross – a Theology of Revolution and PeaceJames W Douglass(The Macmillian Company, New York, USA, 1970)A powerful espousal of Christian pacifism from a major writer in the field.pbk £10.00 |
| We Will Not Fight… – The Untold Story of the World War One’s Conscientious ObjectorsWill Ellsworth-Jones(Aurum Press, London, 2008)pbk £9.99 |
| Women Conscientious Objectors – An Anthology(Eds) Ellen Elster and Majken Jul Sorensen(War Resisters’ International, London, 2010)Gets to the heart of a feminist engagement with issues of militarism, dealing with case histories ranging in time and place from World War II Britain to present-day Columbia.pbk £8.00 |
| Naming the Dead – A Serious CrimeMaya Anne Evans with Milan Rai(JNV Publications, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex, 2006)The personal account of the first person convicted under the notorious SOCPA law, forbidding protest near parliament without advance authorisation – for reading out names of people killed in Iraq.pbk £6.99 |
| Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counteract it(Ed) Owen Everett(War Resisters’ International, London, 2013)Around the world, children and young adults encounter the military and military values in a variety of ways. Through articles, images, surveys and interviews, this collection documents how the seeds of war are planted in young minds in various countries, and also explores the seeds of resistance.pbk £5.00 |
| Piecing it Together: Feminism & Nonviolence(Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group, Buckleigh, Devon, 1983)Still a classic.pbk £5.00 |
| The Biblical Basis of PacifismJohn Ferguson(Fellowship of Reconciliation, London, 1993)pmphlt £1.00 |
| Pacifism and Conscientious ObjectionGC Field(Cambridge University Press, 1945)A study based on the statements made by thousands of COs at one of the Second World War regional Tribunals which dealt with their applications.hbk £6.50 |
| Victories Without ViolenceA Ruth Fry(Peace Book Club, London, 1943)An explanation of dozens of examples of successful unarmed struggle, written as a response to militarists who accuse pacifists of being people who do nothing.pbk £5.25 |
| Manifesto Against Conscription and the Military SystemGandhi Informations-Zentrum(Deutsche Bibliothek, 2001)pbk £3.00 |
| A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories(Eds) Larry Gara & Lenna Mae Gara(Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, USA, 1999)Ten pacifists – including Dave Dellinger, Ralph DiGia, and Larry Gara himself – tell why they resisted and what happend.hbk £18.95 (reduced from £25.00) |
| Counter Power – Making Change HappenTim Gee(New Internationalist, Oxford, 2011)An insightful survey of struggles (not exclusively nonviolent ones) through the years, and how – and why – our struggles must continue. The book addresses ends and means, and the way that nonviolent struggle produces results more consistent with its aims. The author demonstrates powerfully that campaigning does make a difference.pbk £9.99 |
| We Will Not Go to War – conscientious objection during the world warsFelicity Goodall(History Press, Stroud, 2010)The struggles, motivations and stories of Britons who were widely viewed as outcasts.pbk £9.99 |
| Conscription and Conscience: A History 1916-1919John W Graham(Augustus M Kelley Publishers, New York, USA, 1969)A reprint of the sympathetic and detailed history first published in Britain in 1922.hbk £11.50 |
| The Power of Non-ViolenceRichard B Gregg(James Clarke & Co Ltd, London, 1960)This is the author’s 1959 revision of the classic title first published in 1935, which has been an essential starting point for theorists of nonviolence for generations since. It deals with many issues which are still being addressed by activists today – how nonviolence relates to class, the state, and our biology; how it is an effective substitute for war; and how we need to prepare and train. This edition has a Foreword by Martin Luther King.pbk £10.00 |
| Nonviolent Direct Action – American Cases: Social-Psychological Analyses(Eds) A Paul Hare and Herbet H Blumberg(Corpus Books, Washington DC, USA, 1968)A seminal analysis of radical nonviolent action in the USA, taking its cases primarily – but not exclusively – from the 1960s. Includes a wide range of analytical articles from some of the best-known authors in this field.hbk £18.00 |
| Refusing to Kill – Conscientious Objectors and Human Rights in the First World WarOliver Haslam(Peace Pledge Union, 2006)The best overview of conscientious objection in Britain in the First World War which is currently in print. pbk £15.00 |
| Nonviolent Responses to TerrorismTom H Hastings(McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, USA, 2004)An outline of some of the best thinking about nonviolent repsonses to terrorism, dealing with both immediate responses (such as mediations, citizen initiatives, international law, etc) and long-term resposnes (including stopping the flow of arms, building sustainability and justice, conflict education, and use of the media).pbk £36.50 |
| Quenching Wrath – Collective Security and NonviolenceHoward Horsburgh(Pax Books, Glasgow, 1992)This book questions conventional attitudes to “security” and argues that only nonviolence can bring about security as properly understood.pbk £3.00 |
| Unarmed Against Fascism – How the Norwegians resisted the German occupation during World War IIAK Jameson(Peace News, 1963)A pacifist summarises the story of successful nonviolent resistance in Norway – when the Germans could be said to have invaded the country but not conquered it – and assesses its significance. It includes a foreward by a participant in the resistance. The main text of the pamphlet is a revised version of New Way in Norway?, published by Peace News in 1948.pmphlt £7.00 |
| Conscientious Objectors of the Second World War – Refusing to FightAnn Kramer(Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013)A well-researched look at the subject of Second World War COs in Britain – including some pre-war background – covering what they did and said, and what happend to them. A pity that the indexer has spoiled a good job by the use of not just grating, but misleading, US English.hbk £19.99 |
| Hostage in IraqNorman Kember(Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 2007)The story of this Christian pacifist’s months as a hostage.hbk £14.95 |
| Toward a Living Revolution – A five-stage framework for creating radical social changeGeorge Lakey(Peace News, London, 2012)A welcome reprint of the 1987 edition of this largely timeless book – with even earlier origins – by one of the USA’s most significant thinkers and writers and espousers of revolutionary nonviolence. (He has a lot to do with why the pacifist paper Peace News has had its “for nonviolent revolution” subtitle for the last 40 years.) With a new chapter in the form of a Forward to this editionpbk £15.00 |
| Crimes of Dissent: Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice and the Politics of ConscienceJarret S Lovell(New York University Press, USA, 2009)A look at the motivations and the costs of breaking the law during the struggle for social change – though primarily dealing with the US context. And note the US terminolgy of the title: it deals with what British activists call direct action, not just with what we call civil disobedience (ie it covers cases where the lawbreaking is an irrelevant by-product of following one’s conscience, as well as those when breaking the law is a more deliberate part of the strategy).pbk £7.99 (reduced from £15.99) |
| Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History(Ed) Staughton Lynd(The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, USA, 1966)A wide-ranging look at well over 200 years of US radicalism.pbk £4.50 |
| The New Testament Basis of PacifismGHC Macgregor(Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1953)hbk £5.00 |
| Uprooting WarBrian Martin(Freedom Press, London, 1984)pbk £2.00 (currently reduced from £6.00) |
| Nonviolent Struggle and Social DefenceBrian Martin and others (Eds Shelley Anderson and Janet Larmore)(War Resisters’ International, 1991)pbk £5.00 |
| Social Defence – Social ChangeBrian Martin(Freedom Press, London, 1993)Discusses how social defence is not just a non-military approach to dealing with an invasion, but how its radical implications lead equally to ways of opposing oppression and violence within one’s “own” society.pbk £4.95 |
| Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of BackfireBrian Martin(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Maryland, USA, 2007)Another fine book from this author, relating academic ideas to real-life experiences, showing how popular outrage at state or corporate crimes can be constructively developed. This will be especially welcomed by anyone who heard Brian’s presentations on this theme at the WRI’s 2006 Triennial conference in Germany.pbk £21.95 |
| The Ministry of Reconciliation – Christian Pacifism: Its Grounds and Implications(Ed) Hugh Martin(Headley Brothers, London, 1916)A very rare copy of the original edition of what was a highly topical classic of its era.£25.00 |
| War Prevention Works – 50 stories of people resolving conflictDylan Mathews(Oxford Research Group, Oxford, 2001)Highlights the tools and techniques used by ordinary people to help resolve conflicts around the world.pbk £6.50 |
| The Raytheon 9 – Resisting War Crimes is Not a CrimeEamonn McCann(The Derry Anti-War Coalition, 2008)The story of the occupation of the Raytheon arms factory in Northern Ireland, which provides bombs for the Israeli air force.pmphlt £2.00 |
| Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia – An Iraq War MemoirCamilo Mejia(Haymarket Books, Chicago, USA, 2008)The author applied for discharge as a conscientious objector, but was convicted of desertion.pbk £11.99 |
| Self-DefenceDon Milani(War Resisters’ International, Enfield, Middlesex, 1965)Following a statement by Italian army chaplains, calling conscientious objectors cowards, Don Milani, a priest in central Italy, issued a letter in the COs’ support. We was then charged with incitement to crime. His defence to the charge – set out in this pamphlet along with the original exchange – has inspired many people since.pmphlt £10.00 |
| A Conscientous Objector’s Guide to the UN Human Rights SystemEmily Miles(Quaker UN Office, Geneva / CONCODOC, London, 2000)Quite a lucid and well-structured guide to a complex area – an invaluable tool.pbk £10.00 |
| The Abolition of WarWalter Millis & James Real(The Macmillian Company, New York, 1963)Written on the basis that a solution can be found to provide a substitute for legalised mass murder.hbk £5.50 |
| More Plain Words on WarSybil Morrison(Peace News, London, 1955)A small collection of some of Sybil Morrison’s weekly columns which appeared for many years on the back page of Peace Newspmphlt £4.00 |
| The Life and Work of Stuart MorrisSybil Morrison(Peace Pledge Union, 1969)A Christian pacifist, and ordained Anglican, Stuart Morris would certainly have become a Bishop if he hadn’t renounced his Holy Orders in 1939, having been made to resign from his post as Chaplain of the Fleet Air Arm because of his preaching of pacifist sermons. He served as both Chairperson and General Secretary of the PPU.pmphlt £10.00 |
| Resisting the Nation State – The Pacifist and Anarchist TraditionGeoffrey Ostergaard(Peace Pledge Union, 1985)pmphlt £3.00 |
| From Protest to Resistance – The Direct Action Movement Against Nuclear Weapons Peace News – various authors(Mushroom Bookshop, Nottingham, 1981) An all-too-brief, but powerful, history of nonviolent activism at the cutting edge of the anti-nuclear weapons movement in the 1950s ansd 1960s – published just as this movement was to see a new upsurge. The fine range of contributors includes Dennis Gould, Pat Arrowsmith, Adrian Mitchell and Nicolas Walter, and includes excerpts from a historic court case, iconic pictures, and a timeline.pbk £6.50 |
| Comrades in Conscience – The story of an English community’s opposition to the Great WarCyril Pearce(Francis Boutle Publishers, 2001)pbk £15.00 |
| The Right to Refuse Military Orders(Ed) Merja Pentikainen(International Peace Bureau, in collaboration with IALANA and others, 1994)pbk £2.00 |
| Civil Disobedience: An American TraditionLewis Perry(Yale University Press, 2013)A distinctive tradition dating back to pre-civil war days. The author looks at the causes, the justifications, and the disagreements. (Note that in the US, the term “civil disobedience” is often used to also cover what in British parlance is properly called “nonviolent direct action” – the two being distinct concepts, of course.)pbk £20.00 |
| Conscience and LibertyRobert SW Pollard(George Allen and Unwin, London, 1940)Includes conscientious objection to military conscriptiion in the broader context of the link betwen freedom of conscience and liberty of opinion.hbk £7.50 |
| Conscience and LibertyRobert SW Pollard(George Allen and Unwin, London, 1940)Includes conscientious objection to military conscriptiion in the broader context of the link betwen freedom of conscience and liberty of opinion.pbk £5.00 |
| The Faith Called PacifismMax Plowman(JM Dent & Sons, London, 1936)A leading figure in the pacifist movement of the 1930s calls for both war resistance and co-operative living.hbk £4.25 |
| War is a Crime Against HumanityDevi Prasad(War Resisters’ International, 2005)The long-awaited story of the first 50-plus years of the WRI.pbk £18.00 (currently reduced from £28.00) |
| They Love it But Leave It – American DesertersDevi Prasad(War Resisters’ International, London, 1971)hbk £12.00 |
| Discussing Alternatives to Military Intervention – Reports from a Quaker seminar in London, October 2000(Quaker Books, London, 2002)The material deals with the problems of peaceful prevention of genocide and armed conflict, looks at examples from past and present conflict zones, and considers the role of governmental and non-governmental organisations.pbk £3.50 |
| Conscience & Politics: The British Government and the Conscientious Objector to Military Service 1916-1919John Rae(OUP, London 1970)One of the key books for anyone interested in COs in Britain in the First World War. Covers the political and legal issues, the various grounds people had, the limitations and confusion of the legal procedures established for COs, and the organisations campaigning for them.hbk £18.00 |
| Militarism and RepressionMichael Randle with Beverly Woodward(International Seminars on Training for Nonviolent Action, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1980)The thesis is that militarism is related to repression at both instrumental and structural levels. It’s good to have a wide-ranging and well-researched exposition of ideas that many of us, at least in a simplistic way, take for granted.pmphlt £10.00 |
| People Power: The Building of a New European HomeMichael Randle(Hawthorn Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1991)The author looks at the way individuals and groups used non-violent methods, and social resistance, over many years, to erode and finally overthrow the autocratic regimes in eastern Europe. The book also incldues interviews with individuals involved.pbk £7.95 |
| An Outline for Pacifist Study(Introduced by) Charles E Raven(Peace Pledge Union, London, 1940s)A collection of essays dealing with the vlaue of study groups, and with ideas for some of the issues worthy of study.pmphlt £5.00 |
| The Starting Point of PacifismCharles E Raven(Peace Pledge Union, London, 1940)A thoughtful, though partly religiously-based, take on how human-ness leads to pacifism. The second in a series of PPU wartime pamphlets, under the general title “The Bond of Peace”, discussing the meaning of pacifism in relation to the individual and society.pmphlt £5.00 |
| The Battle of LarzacRoger Rawlinson(Fellowship of Reconciliation, New Malden, Surrey, 1976)A rare copy of this story of the long nonviolent struggle of the peasant farmers of the Larzac Plateau, in central France, against government plans to extend an army camp onto their lands. Including a duplicated update from the author of the events during the two years after the pamphlet was published.pmphlt £10.00 |
| Larzac – A Victory for NonviolenceRoger Rawlinson(Quaker Peace & Service, London, 1983)This pamphlet, in the QPS “Nonviolence in Action” series, takes the long story of the struggle of the Larzac peasants (to resist the expansion of an army camp) through to its victory in 1981 when the military’s plan was annulled. It includes a look back at the lessons to be learned, by an author who was the pre-eminent British expert on the struggle.pmphlt £2.00 |
| The Christian’s Alternative to War: An Examination of Christian PacifismLeyton Richards(Student Christian Movement, London, 1929)A leading pacifist writer approaches the issue from a Christian perspective.£14.50 |
| Palestinian Resistance and NonviolenceAndrew Rigby(Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jersualem, 2010)Covers the period from the British military occupation after the First World War, up to 2010. From 1949, it concentrates on struggle in the Occupied Territories, rather than in Israel itself or amongst refugee communities outside Palestine.pbk £10.00 |
| The Abolition of War: The “Peace Movement” in Britain, 1914-1919Keith Robbins(University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1976)An interesting historical study of how arguments within and between the very mixed peace organisations pre-dating the First World War led to the founding of new, more fully pacifist, movements. hbk £7.50 |
| Civilian Resistance as a National Defence – Non-violent Action against Agression(Ed) Adam Roberts(Pengin Books, Harmondsworth, 1969)A classic; though uses an old-fashioned characterisation of “pacifism” as something insufficiently active to encompass all the techniques covered in the book. Originally pubished as The Strategy of Civilian Defence in 1967, this edition includes a new introduction by the editor, dealing with the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968.pbk £4.50 |
| Civil Resistance & Power Politics – The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Presen(Eds) Adam Roberts & Timothy Garton Ash(OUP, Oxford, 2011)The book looks at instances of the use of unarmed people-power stretching back almost a century, with some 20 examples dealt with by a range of experts. The writers – besides setting out histories – include useful analysis. It’s encouraging when mainstream historians can acknowledge the militantly activist tradition within pacifism, and can write – with few reservations – about the concept of nonviolent revolution (even if they hyphenate non-violent).pbk £25.50 (published at £36.00) |
| Civil Resistance & Power Politics – The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Presen(Eds) Adam Roberts & Timothy Garton Ash(OUP, Oxford, 2011)The book looks at instances of the use of unarmed people-power stretching back almost a century, with some 20 examples dealt with by a range of experts. The writers – besides setting out histories – include useful analysis. It’s encouraging when mainstream historians can acknowledge the militantly activist tradition within pacifism, and can write – with few reservations – about the concept of nonviolent revolution (even if they hyphenate non-violent).pbk £16.99 |
| Christianity is PacifismWilliam Robinson(George Allen & Unwin, 1933)”Persuasive” according to a major contemporary theological journal.pbk £20.00 |
| Society Without the StateRonald Sampson(Peace Pledge Union, London, 1985)In this challenging essay, the author explores the meaning of power, and its significance in our lives. Originally published in 1970, with a different introduction, as The Anarchist Basis of Pacifismpmphlt £3.00 |
| The Unconquerable World – Why peaceful protest is stronger than warJonathan Schell(Penguin, 2005)An eloquent presentation of the idea that war has become dysfunctional as a political instrument. Optimistic, pragmatic and compelling.pbk £8.99 |
| Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in NondemocraciesKurt Schock(University of Minnesota Press, 2005)Looks at how People Power has promoted regime change in some countries but not in others: it provides insights into the power of nonviolent action.pbk £16.00 |
| The Frontier Gandhi: Abdul Ghaffar Khan – Muslim champion of nonviolenceShireen Shah(Movement for the Abolition of War, London, with the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008)Abdul Ghaffar Khan (who lived from 1890 to 1988) was nicknamed “the Frontier Gandhi” because he spent much of his life working for social transformation through nonviolent means – justifying it in terms of his Islamic beliefs – with a nonviolent “army” challenging British rule in the North-West Frontier region of British India (now Pakistan).pmphlt £3.00 |
| The Politics of Nonviolent Action – Part One: Power and StruggleGene Sharp(Porter Sargent, Boston, USA, 2012)The latest reprint of the first part of Gene Sharp’s three-volume tour de force first published in 1973 – a set of books which every self-respecting nonviolent revolutionary had by their bedside 40 years ago and which it’s great to have all in print again. This first part systematically analyses the nature and control of political power, and looks at methods of nonviolent action as an effective technique of struggle.pbk £19.99 |
| The Politics of Nonviolent Action – Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent ActionGene Sharp(Porter Sargent, Boston, USA, 2012)This second part of Gene Sharp’s famous three-volume work covers what the author calls political jiu-jitsu. It gives detailed explanations of Gene Sharp’s famous list of 198 nonviolent methods.pbk £10.95 |
| The Politics of Nonviolent Action – Part Three: The Dynamics of Nonviolent ActionGene Sharp(Porter Sargent, Boston, USA, 2012)The final part of Gene Sharp’s 1973 classic analyses in detail the various phases of nonviolent action, looking at planning and strategy; it includes chapters on repression and solidarity, and the ways that power may ultimately be redistributed.pbk £13.99 |
| Sharp’s Dictionary of Power and Struggle – Language in Civil Resistance and ConflictGene Sharp(OUP, London, 2012)It’s rare to find a work of reference so gripping! And it has little to quibble with – even for those sensitive to differences between US and British political terminologies. Another excellent tool for activists from this great pioneer of nonviolent theory. pbk £12.99 |
| From Dictatorship to Democracy – A Conceptual Framework for LiberationGene Sharp(Housmans, 2011)A reprint – with a new preface by Michael Randle – of this classic text which has been used in many countries by groups struggling nonviolently to overthrow dictatorships. Alongside his strategic insistence on nonviolent methods, the author shatters the illusion that the only alternatives are armed struggle or acquiesence.pbk £5.95 |
| Waging Nonviolent Struggle – 20th Century Practice and 21st Century PotentialGene Sharp(Extending Horizons Books, Boston, USA, 2005)Not only useful for students, this latest work from one of the most important writers on the practicalities of nonviolent struggle will be a “must read” for individuals and groups involved in campaigns which aspire to nonviolence.pbk £16.95 |
| I Will Not Fight – Selected Talks and Writings 1924-37Dick Sheppard(Peace Pledge Union, London, 1985)This collection of writings, by the PPU’s founder, was part of an occasional series of PPU reprints of otherwise hard-to-find material from the organisation’s early days which was of continued interest and relevance – as indeed this still is, another 25 years on.pmphlt £3.50 |
| The Quiet Battle – Writings on the Theory and Practice of NonViolent Resistance(Ed) Mulford Q Sibley(Anchor Books, New York, USA, 1963)The selection covers both the theory and the practice, and prvides an excellent round-up of classic writings through the ages.pbk £8.50 |
| Engage: Exploring Nonviolent LivingLaura Slattery et al(Pace e Bene Press, California, USA, 2005)Part of a study and action series, offering a wide variety of principles, stories, exercises, and readings – for learning, practising, and experimenting with the power of creative nonvioence.pbk £14.00 |
| Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East(Ed) Maria J Stephan(Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009) Explores the rich but little-known history of nonviolent civilian-led struggles for rights and freedoms in many parts of the region – even before the uprisings of early 2011. pbk £19.50 (reduced from £20.99) |
| Eunice FleetLily Tobias(Honno Classics, 2004)A novel about the treatment of conscientious objectors in the First World War, by an author two of whose brothers were COs. This classic has been reprinted after being out of print for more than half a century.pbk £8.99 |
| Government is Violence – Essays on Anarchism and PacifismLeo Tolstoy, Edited and introduced by David Stephens(Phoenix Press, London, 1990)A key collection, which still fills what is otherwise a major gap in available material by Tolstoy. Includes brief but useful notes, and a list of further reading.pbk £7.95 |
| An Energy Field More Intense than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American LiteruatureMichael True(Syracuse University Press, USA, 1995)The author looks at the rich tradition of US literature dealiing with nonviolence.pbk £13.95 |
| Political Violence & Civil DisobedienceErnest van den Haag(Harper & Row, New York, USA, 1962)A thought-provoking essay, though based very much in its time and place. It uses a definition of civil disobedience as meaning disregard of a law which one opposes overall, but not the breaching of a law which one refuses to accept for oneself without necessarily opposing the existence of the law. Hence – for example – some illegal resistance to conscription by conscientous objectors would not be included in the definition. The author considers definitions of violence and of coercion, and looks at riots and democracy and alienation.pbk £6.00 |
| A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance WorksStellan Vinthagen(Zed Books, London, 2015)The author – also an experienced activist – has produced a ground-breaking and much-needed addition to this field. Perhaps the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action since Gene Sharp’s seminal The Politics of Nonviolent Action in 1973.pbk |
| Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns(War Resisters’ International, London, 2014)The new second edition of a publication already translated into a dozen other languages.pbk £6.99 |
| Peace is the Way – A Guide to Pacifist Views and Actions(Eds) Cyril Wright and Tony Augarde(Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1990)Produced for the Peace Pledge Union, it includes a series of essays on the relationship of pacifism to many other issues, as well as chapters on pacifist actions, pacifist alternatives, pacifist organisations, and so on. A comprehensive introduction.pbk £6.95 |
| In Solitary Witness – The Life and Death of Franz JagerstatterGordon Zahn(Templegate Publishers, Springfield, USA, 1986)The Christian who resisted conscription into Hitler’s forces, and was executed.pbk £10.99 |
| Snowball: The Story of a Non-violent Civil-Disobedience Campaign in Britain(Eds) Angie Zelter and Arya BhushanBhardwaj(Gandhi-in-Action, New Delhi, India, 1991)The story of the long-running and imaginative Snowball campaign against Britain’s nuclear weapons.pbk £10.50 |
Topic 2: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc
These are writings by or about major figures in the history of nonviolence, such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Tolstoy; there is also material relating to their movements and their followers. (These books are separated according to which person they relate to, beforebeing put into alphabetical order by author.)
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
GANDHI
| Gandhi the Organiser. How he shaped a nationwide rebellion: India 1915-1922 (Paperback) Bob Overy (Irene Publishing, 2019) £18 Looks at how highly controversial campaigns of civil disobedience were matched with non-contentious campaigns of constructive work, to help to build self-reliance and pride in those who were active in the struggle, as well as in those who were not. |
| • | Mahatma GandhiDouglas Allen(Reaktion Books, London, 2011)The book examines Gandhi’s life and work, and also looks at how Gandhi’s practices can be made relevant to our current times. A book of interest to activists as well as to theorists.pbk £10.95 |
| • | A Guide to the Study of Gandhian Annotated BibilographyRex Ambler(Housmans /Gandhi Foundation, 1986)pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | Rediscovering GandhiYogesh Chadha(Century Books, London, 1997)A biography of Gandhi as a crusader, but especially from the perspective of his living out of his “spiritual” principles. It also deals in some detail with the events surrounding his assassination.hbk £9.99 |
| • | Democracy on DialysisWhat Next?Dr Arya Bhushan Bhardwaj(Lok Swaraj ManchPublications, Swaraj Nagar, India, 2003)pbk £3.50 |
| • | Gandhi: Prisoner of HopeJudith M Brown(Yale University Press, 1998)The definitive biography.pbk £15.95 |
| • | Mahatma Gandhi – the Essential Writings(Ed) Judith M Brown(Oxford World’s Classics, 2008)This selection of Gandhi’s writings, with commentaries by the noted Gandhi scholar Judith M Brown, must be a standard work for those wanting access to a wide and intelligent selection of Gandhi’s writings in one volume.pbk £10.99 |
| • | Mahatma Gandhi – Nonviolent Power in ActionDennis Dalton(Columbia University Press, New York, 2000)An intellectually satisfying analysis of the Gandhian concepts of satyagraha and swaraj, the book also deals with the trenchant criticisms of Gandhi’s methods by his contemporaries.pbk £14.50 |
| • | Gandhi – his life, his struggles, his wordsElisabeth de Lambilly (illustrated by Severine Cordier)(Enchanted Lion Books, New York, USA, 2010)An illustrated sotry of the life of Gandhi.hbk £13.99 |
| • | The Story of BardoliMahadev Desai(Navajivan Pubishing House, Ahmedabad, India, 1957)A history of the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 and its sequel – originally published in 1929.pbk £2.00 |
| • | Gandhi’s Prisoner? – The Life of Gandhi’s Son ManilalUma Dhupelia-Mesthrie(Kwela Books, Cape Town, South Africa, 2004)hbk £20.00 |
| • | What Gandhi Says – About Violence, Resistance and CourageNorman G Finkelsteini(OR Books, London, 2012)The author gets behind Gandhi the inspiration, and looks at what he actually wrote about nonviolence and resistance – and at the resonance of Gandhi’s ideas during recent struggles.pbk £6.00 |
| • | An Autobiography: The Story of my Experiments with TruthMahatma Gandhi(Penguin Modern Classics, 2001)Although written in the 1920s, before some of the busiest and best-known periods of his life, this remains a key book for understanding Gandhi’s philosophy. Includes a new introductino by Sunil Khilnani.pbk £10.99 |
| • | From Yeravda MandirMK Gandhi (Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, India, 2008)Gandhi’s weekly letters to the Satyagraha Ashram written during his imprisonment in Yeravda Central Prison in 1930. As translated by Valji Govindji Desai from the original Gujarati, with the English corrected by Gandhi himself when he had the time during his incarceration in the same prison in 1932. A reprint of the original 1932 publication.pmphlt £4.00 |
| • | Hind Swaraj or Indian Home RuleMK Gandhi(Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, India, 2008)A recent reprint of a famous 1939 publication.pmphlt £4.50 |
| • | Sarvodaya – its principles and programmeMK Gandhi(Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, India, 2007)A reprint of the 1951 pamphlet.pmphlt £3.50 |
| • | Selected Political WritingsMahatma Gandhi (Edited, with Introduction, by Dennis Dalton)(Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis, USA, 1996)The first collection of Gandhi’s writings to be based on the complete edition of his works, this volume presents Gandhi’s most important political writings arranged around two central themes of his politics – satyagraha (the power of nonviolence) and swaraj (freedom).pbk £9.95 |
| • | The Story of My LifeMahatma Gandhi (abridged and simplified by Bharatan Kumarappa)(Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, India, 1955)A version of Gandhi’s story prepared for use in (Indian) schools.pbk £4.00 |
| • | Soul Force: Gandhi’s Writings on Peace(Ed) V Geetha(Tara Publishing, Chennai, India, 2004)The collection, with plentiful explanatory notes by the editor, spans the whole of Gandhi’s political life.pbk £8.99 |
| • | An Atheist with GandhiGora [G Ramachandra Rao](Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, India, 2003)A reprint of the 1951 original, in which India’s most celebrated atheist campaigner of modern times recounts his conversations with Gandhi; their exchanges are mutually very sympathetic.pmphlt £4.50 |
| • | Which Way Lies Hope? – An Examination of Capitalism, Communism, Socialism and Gandhiji’s ProgrammeRichard B Gregg(Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, India, 1952)One of this author’s lesser-known works.pbk £8.00 |
| • | Gandhi’s Johannesburg – Birthplace of SatyagrahaEric Itzkin(Witwatersrand University Press, 2000)hbk £16.99 |
| • | I Could Not Save Mahatma Gandhi – Untold Stories from a Witness’s DiaryJagdishchandra Jain(Frontpage Publications, London, 2010)A story of government complacency in the face of a one citizen’s attempt to thwart a conspiracy.pbk £11.95 |
| • | Experiments in Moral Sovereignty – Notes of an American ExileJeff Knaebel(Friends of the Gandhi Museum, Pune, India, 2006)These are the writings of a US man who settled in India as a Gandhian, in despair at his original country’s military policies. The book was prepared in order to be distributed at the World social Forum in India in 2006, and to mark 100 years of Gandhian satyagraha.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Mahatma Gandhi: Apostle of Non-ViolenceCoonoor Kripalani(Rupa, New Delhi, India, 2003)A biography by a student of the nationalist struggles in India and China.hbk £9.95 |
| • | Mahatma Gandhi and His ApostlesVed Mehta(Andre Deutsch, London, 1977)A biographical account based not only on written records, but on the oral testimony of living Gandhians. The author reclaims something of the human being behind the myth, and looks at how his ideas have been simultaneously revered and ignored in India.hbk £5.00 |
| • | Towards Fair and Free ElectionsJayaprakash Narajan et al(Lok Niti Parishad, New Delhi, India, 1970’s)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Nonviolent Revolution in IndiaGeoffrey Ostergaard(Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, 1985)Tracing the intellectual origins of Gandhi’s novel concept, and telling the story of the strategy after his death, including Jayaprakash Narayan’s controversial new strategy of”Total Revolution” which led to the government’s imposition of Emergency Rule in 1975.hbk £10.00 |
| • | The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma GandhiMakarand R Paranjape(Routledge, 2017)The author asks whether the whole ideology of Hindu nationalism – rather than a lone fanatic – was responsible for the death of Gandhi. And does his death continue to haunt India, where many now consider him irrelevant?pbk |
| • | Sonja Schlesin – Gandhi’s South African SecretaryGeorge Paxton(Pax Books, 2006)pbk £7.50 |
| • | Champaran and Gandhi – Planters, Peasants and Gandhian PoliticsJacques Pouchepadass(Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, 1999)How the indigo plantation economy culminated in the first experiment in Gandhian mass mobilisation.hbk £13.99 |
| • | Gandhi’s Dilemma in War and IndepndenceRanabir Samaddar(Frontpage Publications, Kolkata, India, 2009)The author reveals a new dimention to gandhi’s personality.pbk £11.95 |
| • | The Agony of Arrival – Gandhi: The South Africa YearsNagindas Sanghavi(Rupa & Co, New Delhi, India, 2006)hbk £19.95 |
| • | War Without ViolenceKrishnalal Shridharani(Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, India, 1962)The story of Gandhi’s satyagraha, by one of Gandhi’s followers, with a strong call for the adoption of nonviolent direct action and a dismissal of the value of non-activist pacifism.pbk £14.00 |
| • | Gandhi – A Political and Spiritual LifeKathryn Tidrick(IB Taurus & Co, 2006)A sympathetic but not uncritical portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, bringing out some of the contradictions in his stance.hbk £19.50 |
| • | Liberation & Revolution: Gandhi’s Challenge(War Resisters’ International, 1969)Proceedings of the WRI’s 13th Triennial Conference, held in Gandhi’s Centennial Year, in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA.pbk £9.50 |
| • | Gandhi’s Peace Army – The Shanti Sena and Unarmed PeacekeepingThomas Weber(Syracuse University Press, 1996)With a Foreward by Elise Boulding.hbk £24.95 (reduced from £39.95) |
| • | GandhiGeorge Woodcock(Fontana, London, 1972)The classic concise autobiography.pbk £2.25 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING
| • | King: A Comics Biography – The Special EditionHo Che Andersen(Fantagraphic Books, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2010)A graphic novel-style biography.hbk £24.99 |
| • | Never to Leave Us Alone – The Prayer life of Martin Luther King JrLewis V Baldwin(Fortress Press, Minneapolis, USA, 2010)Offers clues to both the man and his values.£10.99 |
| • | Martin Luther KingGodfrey Hodgson(Quercus, London, 2009)A rounded portrait of the great orator and activist.pbk £9.99 |
| • | Going Down Jericho Road – The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last CampaignMichael K Honey(WW Norton, New York, USA, 2007)Looks at the street protests and the backroom deals which were part of the campaign which shook Memphis – and claimed King’s life.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Behind the Dream – The Making of the Speech that Transformed a NationClarence B Jones and Stuart Connelly(Palgrave Macmillan, NewYork, USA, 2011)The story of Martin Luther King’s famous 1963 Speech in Washington.hbk £14.99 |
| • | Strength to LoveMartin Luther King Jr(Fontana Books, 1974)A collection of MLK’s sermons.pbk £2.50 |
| • | The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr(Ed) Clayborne Carson(Abacus, London, 2010)The latest reprint of this work (originally written in 1998), which gives the story of Martin Luther King compiled in his own words from his own speeches and writings.pbk £10.99 |
| • | Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King JrStephen B Oates(HarperPerennial, New York, USA, 1994)A comprehensive and well-documented biography.pbk £3.50 |
| • | An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther KingWilliam F Pepper(Verso, London, 2003)hbk £17.00 |
| • | An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther KingWilliam F Pepper(Verso, London, 2008)pbk £9.99 |
| • | Killing the DreamGerald Posner(Little, Brown & Co, 1998)pbk £11.99 |
| • | Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr and the International Hunt for His AssassinHampton Sides(Allen Lane, London, 2010)Not only the story of James Earl Ray’s escape from prison and his assumption of a new identity prior to the assassination, but also the story of King’s own last months – before the two men’s paths fatefully crossed.pbk £9.95 (reduced from £25.00) |
| • | King’s DreamEric J Sundquist(Yale University Press, London, 2009)A new evaluation of the renowned speech, placing it in the context of US debates about racial justice. hbk £16.99 |
THOREAU
| • | Walden and On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau(New American Library, New York, USA, 1960)The record of Thoreau’s experiment in simple living; together with one of the most famous essays ever written – the classiv protest against government interference with individual liberty.pbk 2.50 |
TOLSTOY
| • | Tolstoy on the Causes of WarRonald Sampson(Peace Pledge Union, 1992)pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Government is Violence – Essays on Anarchism and PacifismLeo Tolstoy, Edited and introduced by David Stephens(Phoenix Press, London, 1990)A key collection, which still fills what is otherwise a major gap in available material by Tolstoy. Includes brief but useful notes, and a list of further reading.pbk £7.95 |
| • | Letter to a HinduLeo Tolstoy(Peace News, London, 1963)This essay, written in 1908, was addressed to Tarakuatta Das, in response to the latter’s policy of violent resistance to British rule in India; it was one of the writings of Tolstoy which influenced Gandhi.pmphlt £0.50 |
| • | The Kingdom of God and Peace EssaysLeo Tolstoy (trans Aylmer Maude)(Oxford University Press, London, 1936)A collection which represents Tolstoy’s final, considered opinion on war, and on the belief in violence which makes wars possible and popular.hbk £9.00 |
Topic 3: Peace education
This covers: writings about peace education at all stages of school and college; other material for children; some other academic research; and co-operative games. Material about the effects of war on children, and the militarisation of young people, is also included here, as is writing about bullying.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | Peace is in Our HandsGrace C Abrams & Fran C Schmidt(Jane Addams Peace Association, Philadelphia, USA, 1974)A resource for adults working with children of junior school age.pbk £3.50 |
| • | In the Firing Line – War and Children’s Rights(Amnesty International, 1999)pbk £9.99 |
| • | Watermelons Not War! – A Support Book For Parenting in the Nuclear AgeKate Cloud, Ellie Deegan, Alice Evans, Hayat Imam and Barbara Signer, of the Nuclear Education Project(New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, USA, 1984)What does it mean to be a parent committed to your child’s welfare in the nuclear age? Five mothers look at dealing with despair, nuclear realities, and taking action.pbk £6.50 |
| • | Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counteract it(Ed) Owen Everett(War Resisters’ International, London, 2013)Around the world, children and young adults encounter the military and military values in a variety of ways. Through articles, images, surveys and interviews, this collection documents how the seeds of war are planted in young minds in various countries, and also explores the seeds of resistance.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Time for PeaceJanet Ganguli(Small World Publications, 2004)pbk £6.00 |
| • | Free The Children! – Conflict Education for Strong & Peaceful MindsSusan Gingras Fitzell(New Society Publishers, British Columbia, Canada, 1997)pbk £10.50 |
| • | Children Don’t Start WarsDavid Gribble(Peace News, London, 2010)The author, having spent a lifetime in teaching, sets out how children are taught to suppress their natural altruism, and don’t need to beeducated to be “good”.pbk £9.00 |
| • | Education for Peace(Eds) Robert A Hinde and Donald A Parry(Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1989)This selection of papers, based on the Cambridge University Disarmament Seminar, looks at the use of education to avoid disputes, as well as to solve them.pbk £6.00 |
| • | A Manual on Nonviolence and Children(Ed) Stephanie Judson(Friends Peace Committee, Philadelphia, USA, 1977)pbk £6.50 |
| • | Children and War(Eds) Marianne Kahnert, David Pitt & Ilkka Taipale(GIPRI / IPB / Peace Union of Finland, 1983)Proceedings of the symposium at Siuntio Baths, Finland, in March 1983.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Let’s Co-operate – Activities and ideas for parents and teachers of young children for peaceful conflict solvingMildred Masheder(Green Print, Rendlesham, Suffolk, 1997)This reprint of the classic PPU publication on co-operative games includes over 200 ideas for youngsters between 3 and 12.pbk £7.99 |
| • | Let’s Play Together – Co-operative Games for All AgesMildred Masheder(Green Print, London, 1989)Over 300 games that put co-operation before competition – traditional party games, circle games, musical and guessing games, and more.pbk £8.99 |
| • | Freedom from BullyingMildred Masheder(Green Print, Rendlesham, Suffolk, 1998)A practical book to help teachers and parents to work with their children to prevent bullying, and to deal with it when it occurs.pbk £3.90 |
| • | Starting Out Right: Nurturing Young Children as PeacemakersKathleen McGinnis and Barbara Oehlberg(Institute for Peace and Justice / Meyer-Stone Books, USA, 1988)pbk £7.99 |
| • | Working Together – a handbook for co-operationMargaret Melicharova(Peace Pledge Union, 1998)An imaginative and practical introduction to co-operative skills, for anyone working with young people. Highly readable and very accessible.pbk £4.50 (published at £10.50) |
| • | Women and Peace – a resource pack for teachers and students(Ed) Margaret Melicharova (Peace Pledge Union)looseleaf £5.50 |
| • | Parachute Games – Activities for a Peaceful World(Peace Pledge Union, London, 2001)Parachute games are co-operative games suitable for all ages and abilities.pmphlt £4.99 |
| • | Peace Education or Education for PeaceDevi Prasad(Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, 1984)The book’s thesis is that peace education entails looking not just at what is taught, but by taking an “aesthetic” approach to education. He also looks at the work in this field of a range of peace and disarmament organisations of different types in different places.hbk £12.00 |
| • | The Friendly Classroom for a Small Planet: A Handbook on Creative Approaches to Living and Problem Solving for ChildrenPriscilla Prutzman, Lee Stern, M Leonard Burger and Gretchen Bodenhamer(New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, 1988)pbk £11.99 |
| • | Look Back, Stride ForwardMiriam Saphira & Lyndy McIntyre(Papers Inc, 1989)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Study War No More Military involvement in UK universitiesTim Street with Martha Beale(Fellowship of Reconciliation and Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2007)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Bullying in Schools(Eds) Delwyn P Tattum and David A Lane(Trentham Books, Stoke-on-Trent, 1992)The contribtors challenge sterotypes of bullies and victims, and offer practical strategies for educational institutions.pbk £4.25 |
| • | Violence – its nature, causes and remediesColin Ward(Penguin Education, 1970)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Making for PeaceAnthony Weaver(Brentham Press, 1988)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Children & ViolenceGulbenkian Foundation Commission on Children and Violence(Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London, 1995)pbk £5.00 |
| • | A Global Peace Study GuideGK Wilson(Housmans / Bradford University School of Peace Studies, 1982)pbk £2.75 |
| • | Studying Peace: Problems & PossibilitiesNigel Young(Housmans, 1986)The definition and focus of peace education was contantly questioned in arguments about its introduction: this is the issue which is tackled in this pamphlet.pmphlt £1.00 |
Topic 4: Peace research
This section includes: general material on peace research; coverage of both the theory and practice of conflict prevention, conflict transformation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding; and writings on reconciliation, forgiveness, the philosophy of peace, a “culture of peace”, the psychology of peace and war, the origins of war, and the anthropology of war. Research on “alternative defence” (in the sense of national non-nuclear, but not exclusively un-armed, options) is also included.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | Making Peace Prevail Preventing Violent Conflict in MacedoniaAlice Ackermann(Syracuse University Press, New York, USA, 2000)£23.95 |
| • | Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace: Silencing the GunsChris Alden, Monika Thakur and Matthew Arnold(Zed Books, London, 2011)Bringing together four intensively researched case studies – DR Congo, East Timor, Afghanistan, and Sudan – the authors propose a radical new framework for demilitarisation, which questions conventional models.pbk £14.99 |
| • | Defence without the Bomb(Taylor & Francis, London, 1983)The report of the Alternative Defence Commission, dealing with the threats, as well as with military and non-military options.pbk £4.00 |
| • | WarJeremy Black(Continuum, London, 2001)Explores the realities of war in a globalised world – a rationally pessimistic thesis.pbk £7.00 |
| • | Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our LivesJoanna Bourke(Virago, London, 2015)Looks at the bluring of entertainment and violence as “militainment”, and how military practices, language and symbols invade our everyday lives.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Constructing Justice and Security after War(Ed) Charles T Call(United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington DC, USA, 2007)pbk £9.50 |
| • | Why Peace Fails – The Causes and Prevention of Civil War RecurrenceCharles T Call(Georgetown University Press, Washington DC, USA, 2012)An important statement on why some states coming out of a civil war move towards peace while others return to violence.pbk £22.75 |
| • | A Liberal Peace? – The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding(Eds) Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam(Zed Books, London, 2011)Takes a fresh look at the often polarised debate over the “liberal peace” approach to international intervention.pbk £14.99 (reduced from £19.99) |
| • | We Kill Because We Can – From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone AgeLaurie Calhoun(Zed Books, London, 2015)Dissecting the moral, psychological and cultural impact of remote-control killing. Can a drone operator be likened to a mafia hitman?hbk £16.99 |
| • | The Cost of Britain’s DefenceMalcolm Chalmers(Bradford University School of Peace Studies / Housmans, 1983)No 10 in the Peace Studies Papers series.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Empowerment for Peace Service – A Curriculum for Education and Training in Violence Prevention, Nonviolent Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding(Christian Council of Sweden, 1996)pbk £3.50 |
| • | People Power – Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity(Ed) Howard Clark(Pluto Press, London, 2009)The contributors place nonviolent struggles in an international context, without shying away from difficult debates.pbk £17.99 |
| • | Anti-Militarism – Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace MovementsCynthia Cockburn(Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012)Looking at the cohesiveness and coherence of peace movements, the author presents original case studies of anti-war, anti-militarist and peace campaigns, in Japan, South Korea, Spain, Uganda, and the UK.pbk £19.99 |
| • | From Where We Stand – War, Women’s Activism and Feminist AnalysisCynthia Cockburn(Zed Books, London, 2007)This study examines women’s activism against war in areas as far apart as Sierra Leone, India, Colombia and Palestine. She discusses how nationalism, masculinity, racism and misogyny fuel militarism, and shows how gender is inseparably linked to the perpetuation of war.pbk £18.99 |
| • | The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in CyprusCynthia Cockburn(Zed Books, London, 2004)Based on research amongst Cypriot women, this study documents the life of a remarkable women’s project. Women take protest into the streets, calling for peace and the inclusion of women into a new Cypriot society.pbk £18.99 |
| • | The Space Between Us – Negotiating Gender and National Identities in ConflictCynthia Cockburn(Zed Books, London, 2003)A highly original study, looking at the processes sustaining conflict in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Deals with collective identities, gender, and nationalist thought and practice.pbk £13.99 |
| • | Can War be Eliminated?Christopher Coker(Polity Press, Cambridge, 2014)A philosopher of war looks at the embeddedeness of war in our cultures. He suggests there is an inconvenient truth that we will not see the end of war until is exhausts its own evolutionary possibilities.pbk £9.99 |
| • | The True Cost of Conflict(Ed) Michael Cranna(Earthscan Publications, London, 1994)This book looks at the human and other cost of conflicts, using seven detailed case studies from around the world, covering several decades.pbk £4.50 |
| • | The Fragile Voice of LoveAdam Curle(Jon Carpenter Publishing, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, 2006)Adam Curle, who died only months after this was published, was an academic as well as a behind-the-scenes mediator in various international conflicts. Here, he looks at the psychological consequences of a non-peaceful way of life.pbk £11.99 |
| • | Pulling the Punches – Defeating Domestic ViolenceLuke Daniels(Bogle-L’Ouverture Press, London, 2009)Adressed specifically to perpetrators of domestic violence – but survivors reading it will find much that gives them power, and helps with their safety.pbk £10.95 |
| • | Preventing Ethnic Conflict: Successful Cross – National StrategiesIrwin Deutscher with Linda Lindsey(Lexington Books, Maryland, USA, 2005)£18.99 |
| • | Working With Conflict: Skills and Strategies for ActionSimon Fisher et al(Zed Books, London, & Responding to Conflict, Birmingham, 2007)A very visual source book, with lots of practical tools – processes, ideas and techniques developed by practitioners over many years.pbk £17.99 |
| • | From Pacification to Peacebuilding – A Call to Global TransformationDiana Francis(Pluto Press, London, 2010)Drawing on the traditions of nonviolence and pacifism, and interpreting them in the light of new situations and experience, the author shows why we must break with the sterile ineffectuality of top-down approaches.pbk £17.99 |
| • | People, Peace and Power – Conflict Transformation in ActionDiana Francis(Pluto, 2002)”It is time for the right location and exercise of power to be re-examined … never before has there been a greater need to demythologise violence.” – from the Preface.hbk £54.95 |
| • | Rethinking War and PeaceDiana Francis(Pluto, 2004)An eloquent head-on challenge to the belief that war as an institution is either necessary or effective, the book explores alternative ways of confronting aggression and injustice.pbk £11.99 |
| • | The Human Potential for Peace – An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and ViolenceDouglas P Fry(Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2006)Challenging the view that humans are by nature warlike, the author argues that cultural beliefs asserting the inevitability of violence can bias our interpretations and could blind us to the possibility of achieving security without war.pbk £30.00 |
| • | Pax Pacifica: Terrorism, the Pacific Hemisphere, Globalisation and Peace StudiesJohan Galtung(Pluto Press, 2006)pbk £15.99 |
| • | Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving PeaceMatthew Green(Portobello Books, London, 2015)hbk £17.99What happens to troops sent to foreign countries when they get back home? The reality of their return. |
| • | Power: Nonviolent Transformation from the Transpersonal to the TransnationalTom H Hastings(Hamilton Books, Lanham, Maryland, USA, 2005)An overview of nonviolent power potential, examining it on personal, community, and transnational levels.pbk £24.95 |
| • | Forgiveness: Breaking the Chain of HateMichael Henderson(Grosvenor Books, 2002)pbk £11.50 |
| • | Nation-Building: A Key Concept for Peaceful Conflict Transformation?(Ed) Jochen Hippler(Pluto Press, 2005)£17.99 |
| • | War Dance: A Study of the Psychology of WarE Graham Howe(Faber & Faber, London, 1937)Based on the author’s series of lectures on this theme in 1936 and 1937.hbk £5.50 |
| • | Standing Your Ground: Territorial Disputes and International ConflictPaul K Huth(University of Michigan Press, USA, 2001)Examines over 100 territorial disputes between 1950 and 1990, and produces theoretical ideas integrating different approaches.pbk £7.50 |
| • | Hidden Voices: Working Creatively with Conflict – A Collection of Personal StoriesAnn Jordan(VBW Publishing, Texas, USA, 2006)pbk £11.25 |
| • | The Moral Imagination – The Art and Soul of Building PeaceJohn Paul Lederach(Oxford University Press, 2010)Insights, stories and metaphors that captivate the moral imagination; inspiring and uplifting.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Why We Kill – Understanding violence across cultures and disciplines(Eds) Nancy Loucks, Sally Smith Holt and Joanna R Adler(Routledge, Abingdon, 2009)An examination of the way that killings in different contexts are perceived so differently – though with the occasional controversial view of what constitutes life.pbk £22.99 |
| • | Expeditionary War or Territorial DefenceAlan Mackinnon(Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Glasgow, 2009)pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of BackfireBrian Martin(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Maryland, USA, 2007)Another fine book from this author, relating academic ideas to real-life experiences, showing how popular outrage at state or corporate crimes can be constructively developed. This will be especially welcomed by anyone who heard Brian’s presentations on this theme at the WRI’s 2006 Triennial conference in Germany.pbk £21.95 |
| • | War Prevention Works – 50 stories of people resolving conflictDylan Mathews(Oxford Research Group, Oxford, 2001)Highlights the tools and techniques used by ordinary people to help resolve conflicts around the world.pbk £6.50 |
| • | The Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict TransformationSheila Meintjes, Anu Pillay and Meredith Turshen(Zed Books, London, 2001)This book assserts that there is no aftermath for women – a truce does not bring an end to gendered violence. It is too late to leave the transformation of patriarchal gender relations to the post-war period.hbk £25.00 |
| • | Doing Democracy: the MAP Model for Organizing Social MovementsBill Moyer(New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2001)Argues that the apparent ups and downs of a social movement’s fortunes follow a pattern which can be used to plan and carry out more effective social action.pbk £11.99 |
| • | Peace in Our Time: Towards a holistic understanding of world society conflictsAnders Nilsson(Department of Peace and Development Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden, 1999)Lessons for the world, based primarily on what was learned from a study of Mozambique.pbk £5.50 |
| • | War is not Inevitable(Peace Book Co, London, 1938)Based on the lectures given as the 13th “Problems of Peace” series at the Geneva Institute for International Relations in August 1938. An illuminating insight into the hopelessness of non-pacifist approaches to the approach of world war.hbk £25.00 |
| • | Pathogenesis of War(Ed) Margaret Penrose(HK Lewis & Co, London, 1963)The proceedings of a conference held at Oxford in July 1962 by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War. A wonderful collection – around a dozen contributions, including Nigel Calder on deterrence theory, Anthony Storr asking whether conflict is inevitable, and Gene Sharp.hbk £14.00 |
| • | The Better Angels of Our NatureSteven Pinker(Penguin, London, 2012)Weaving together psychology and history, the author presents a plausible case that human civilisation’s progress has been such that war and other forms of violence have been – in the long term – steadily decreasing. However, when looking at why (on an inter-state scale) this might be, he tries to overcome “the pacifist’s dilemma” – based on the same negative-sum paradox as the classic logical puzzle of “the prisoner’s dilemma” – by positing various subtle theories, but not the obvious one: namely that pacifism is not the same as non-resistance, nor the acceptance of “defeat”, nor an absence of effective struggle.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Tanks and Trolleys: Why economic policies matter in security thinkingAlison Prout(Quaker Books, London, 2006)Looks afresh at the challenges of peacebuilding by outlining the connection betwen poverty and wealth distribution and the likelihood of violent conflict. Emphasies what real security is all about, as opposed to state-to-state military relations.pmphlt £5.00 |
| • | Discussing Alternatives to Military Intervention – Reports from a Quaker seminar in London, October 2000(Quaker Books, London, 2002)The material deals with the problems of peaceful prevention of genocide and armed conflict, looks at examples from past and present conflict zones, and considers the role of governmental and non-governmental organisations.pbk £3.50 |
| • | Electoral Systems and Conflict in Divided SocietiesBen Reilly and Andrew Reynolds(National Academy Press, Washington, DC, USA, 1999)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Strategies for Peace – Contributions of International Organizations, States, and Non-State Actors(Eds) Volker Rittberger and Martina Fischer(Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen, Germany, 2008)How can sustainable peace be achieved? This book identifies potential state and non-state actors involved in peacebuilding processes, and develops strategies to address the problems and dilemmas of international peacebuilding.pbk £16.95 |
| • | Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial DefenceAdam Roberts(Chatto & Windus, London, 1976)A classic text – a systematic study of the topic.hbk £7.50 |
| • | Inventing Collateral Damage – Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire(Eds) Stephen J Rockel and Rick Halpern(Between the Lines, Toronto, Canada, 2009)A collection of varied studies of civilian casualties in the history of warfare.pbk £18.95 |
| • | Violence & Democratic Society – New Approaches to Human RightsJamil Salmi(Zed Books, London, 1993)The book looks at definitions of human rights which are applicable in different societies.pbk £13.00 |
| • | Keeping the Peace – Exploring Civilian Alternatives in Conflict PreventionLisa Schirch(Life & Peace Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, 1995)An excellent study of the varieties of civil intervention, looking at what is appropriate and when it is appropriate.pbk £4.00 |
| • | The Psychological Problem of DisarmamentPhilip Seed(Housmans, London, 1966)Of all the many peace-related books which are long out of print, this wonderful book by the late Philip Seed must be one of the most missed. There seems to have been no similar publication since then which so clearly and concisely deals with the issues covered here in a way which is as accessible to the lay activist. It looks, amongst other things, at the behaviour of states which, if they were people, would attract a psychatric diagnosis of insanity. En route, it also deals with the almost universal error of personalising the state.pbk £9.50 |
| • | Researching Violently Divided Societies(Eds) Marie Smyth and Gillian Robinson(Pluto Press, London, 2001)pbk £14.99 |
| • | The Israeli Dilemma: Essays on a Warfare StateGeorges R Tamarin(Rotterdam University Press, 1973)A socio-psychological look at the situation.pbk £2.00 |
| • | Instincts of the Herd in Peace and WarW Trotter(T Fisher Unwin, London, 1916)hbk £8.00 |
| • | Walking the Tightrope: Do UN peacekeeping operations actually contribute to durable peace?Jair van der Lijn(Dutch University Press, 2006)pbk £25.00 |
| • | The Least of All Possible Evils – Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to GazaEyal Weizman(Verso, London, 2011)A set of essays dealing with the complexities of understanding violence. Takes the reader into the heart of contemporary necro-politics, examining the dark side of the so-called pragamatism of “the lesser evil”. A forensic-architectural investigation of sites of contemporary conflict.hbk £16.99 |
| • | Violence(Ed) Neil L Whitehead(School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, USA / James Currey, UK, 2004)Takes the reader into the heart of contemoprary necro-politics, examining the dark side of the so-called pragamatism of “the lesser evil”. A forensic-architectural investigation of sites of contemporary conflict.pbk £16.95 |
Topic 5: Women and peace
This is material which: is about women and peace and/or women and war; deals with relevant feminist theory; or discusses the gender aspects of war and militarism.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | What Kind of Liberation? – Women and the occupation of IraqNadje Al-Ali & Nicola Pratt(University of California Press, USA, 2009)Speaks through an array of Iraqi voices; includes a foreword by Cynthia Enloe.hbk £17.95 |
| • | The Women’s Peace Union and the Outlawry of WarHarriet Hyman Alonso(Syracuse University Press, 1997)pbk £14.50 |
| • | The Impact of Guns on Women’s Lives(Amnesty International / IANSA / Oxfam International, 2005)pbk £7.50 |
| • | Telling Tales About Men: Conceptions of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service During the First World WarLois S Bibbings(Manchester University Press, 2011)A brilliant exposure of the contradictions of manliness in wartime.pbk £15.99 |
| • | On the Perimeter – Caroline Blackwood at Greenham CommonCaroline Blackwood(Fontana, London, 1984)Reportage from a visitor to Greenham in its early stages.pbk £3.25 |
| • | Testament of YouthVera Brittain(Virago, London, 2007)One of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, by the woman who was one of the 20th Century’s most significant pacifist writers.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Anti-Militarism – Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace MovementsCynthia Cockburn(Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012)Looking at the cohesiveness and coherence of peace movements, the author presents original case studies of anti-war, anti-militarist and peace campaigns, in Japan, South Korea, Spain, Uganda, and the UK.pbk £19.99 |
| • | From Where We Stand – War, Women’s Activism and Feminist AnalysisCynthia Cockburn(Zed Books, London, 2007)This study examines women’s activism against war in areas as far apart as Sierra Leone, India, Colombia and Palestine. She discusses how nationalism, masculinity, racism and misogyny fuel militarism, and shows how gender is inseparably linked to the perpetuation of war.pbk £18.99 |
| • | The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in CyprusCynthia Cockburn(Zed Books, London, 2004)Based on research amongst Cypriot women, this study documents the life of a remarkable women’s project. Women take protest into the streets, calling for peace and the inclusion of women into a new Cypriot society.pbk £18.99 |
| • | The Space Between Us – Negotiating Gender and National Identities in ConflictCynthia Cockburn(Zed Books, London, 2003)A highly original study, looking at the processes sustaining conflict in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Deals with collective identities, gender, and nationalist thought and practice.pbk £13.99 |
| • | Pulling the Punches – Defeating Domestic ViolenceLuke Daniels(Bogle-L’Ouverture Press, London, 2009)Adressed specifically to perpetrators of domestic violence – but survivors reading it will find much that gives them power, and helps with their safety.pbk £10.95 |
| • | Pacific Women Speak Out – for independence and denuclearisationZohl de Ishtar(Pacific Connections, Annadnale, Australia, 1998)A collection of stories of resistance against incredible odds, stories of survival.pbk £4.50 |
| • | Women Conscientious Objectors – An Anthology(Eds) Ellen Elster and Majken Jul Sorensen(War Resisters’ International, London, 2010)Gets to the heart of a feminist engagement with issues of militarism, dealing with case histories ranging in time and place from World War II Britain to present-day Columbia.pbk £8.00 |
| • | Globalization & Militarism: Feminists Make the LinkCynthia Enloe(Rowman & Littlefield, Plymouth, 2007)Deals with the patriarchal norm which underpins masculine military solutions, and reminds readers of varied and creative acts of resistance.pbk £19.95 |
| • | Maneuvers – The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s LiveCynthia Enloe(University of California Press, 2000)Looks incisively at how militarisation affects far more than the obvious people, dealing with many different women’s stories and experiences.pbk £19.95 |
| • | Piecing it Together: Feminism & Nonviolence(Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group, Buckleigh, Devon, 1983)Still a classic.pbk £4.50 |
| • | Militarism versus Feminism – Writings on Women and WarMary Sargant Florence, Catherine Marshall, CK Ogden(Virago Press, London, 1987)This collection of writings was first published in 1915, just eight months into the First World War. This edition puts the texts in their historical context, but they anyway still have relevance and resonance.pbk £2.90 |
| • | The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a MapUrsula M Franklin(Between The Lines, Toronto, Canada, 2006)Brings together papers, talks and articles, from the career of a pacifist, environmentalist, feminist activist.pbk £14.95 |
| • | Keeping the Peace: Women’s Peace HandbookLynne Jones(The Women’s Press, 1983)pbk £4.00 |
| • | There We’ll Meet Again – The First World War diary of a young German girlPiete Kuhr(Walter Wright, 1998)pbk £5.25 |
| • | The Road to Greenham Common – Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820Jill Liddington(Syracuse University Press, New York, USA, 1991)This book disentangles the different and often complex feminist analyses of militarism over a 170-year period.pbk £6.00 |
| • | Women and Peace – a resource pack for teachers and students(Ed) Margaret Melicharova(Peace Pledge Union)looseleaf £5.50 |
| • | Sonja Schlesin – Gandhi’s South African SecretaryGeorge Paxton(Pax Books, 2006)pbk £7.50 |
| • | Walking to Greenham – How the Peace-camp began and the Cold War endedAnn Pettitt(Honno, Dinas Powys, 2006)What the initiators of the Greenham camp went on to do next.pbk £8.99 |
| • | Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World WarAnne Powell(The History Press, Stroud, 2013)Based on extracts from first-hand accounts, the book covers the experiences of British female medical personnel all over Europe during the First World War.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Maternal Thinking: Towards a Politics of PeaceSara Ruddick(The Women’s Press, London, 1989)With philosophical rigour, compassion, and political astuteness, Sara Ruddick shows how the everyday process of mothering provides the basis for resistance to mililtarism.pbk £6.50 |
| • | The Tamarisk Tree – Vol 3: Challenge to the cold WarDora Russell(Virago Press, London, 1985)pbk £4.50 |
| • | War’s Forgotten Women: British Widows of the Second World WarMaureen Shaw & Helen D Millgate(The History Press, Stroud, 2011)An insight into the realities of post-war Britain, through diaries, letters, and personal interviews.pbk £9.99 |
| • | Opening Doors to Peace – A memorial to Myrtle Solomon(Myrtle Solomon Memorial Fund & War Resisters’ International, 1991)A memorial to a leading figure in the PPU and the WRI, dealing primarily with her work as chair of WRI from 1975 to 1986.pbk £2.00 |
| • | Over Our Dead Bodies – Women Against the Bomb(Ed) Dorothy Thompson(Virago, 1983)pbk £4.00 |
| • | Women for Peace(Women in Black, Belgrade, Serbia, 1994)pbk £3.50 |
| • | City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and ResistanceHaifa Zangana(Seven Stories Press, New York, USA, 2009)pbk £8.99 |
Topic 6: Lifestyles and religious
This has writings on: relevant lifestyle issues; pacifist communities; and religious and “spiritual” (and other whimsical) attitudes to war and peace.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
[Note: Our colleagues at the Christian pacifist organisation Fellowship of Reconciliation – England (FoRE) have compiled a selection, from material stocked in Housmans, of titles they particularly recommend. The selection – taken mainly, but not exclusively, from items on the list below – is collected together here for reference.]
| • | The Growth of the Peace Testimony of the Society of FriendsHorace G Alexander(Friends Peace Committee, London, 1956)pmphlt £4.00 |
| • | The End of Words – Issues in Contemprary Quaker TheologyRex Ambler(Quaker Books, London, 2004)Are Quakers really Christians? Is the peace testimony still tenable? Probably useful for (other) Christians who are puzzled by Quakers.pbk £3.75 |
| • | War and the Lambeth Conference – Some Unresolved Issues(Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, London, 1968)One of the APF’s attempts to confront the rest of the Anglican Communion with the pacifist implications (as the APF would see it) of Christianity.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Peace Together: A Vision of Christian Pacifism(Ed) Clive Barrett(James Clarke & Co, 1987)pbk £6.99 |
| • | Suspended SentenceArthur Blaxall(Hodder and Stoughton, 1963)A Christian pacifist in South Africa tells of his struggle against apartheid.hbk £8.50 |
| • | Letters and Papers from PrisonDietrich Bonhoeffer(Fontana Books, London, 1960)The writings of the nonviolent opponent of Hitler, in the two years prior to his execution.pbk £2.50 |
| • | From Violence to Wholeness – A Ten-Part Process in the Spirituality and Practice of Active NonviolenceKen Butigan(Pace e Bene Press, USA, 2002)Although much of the material is religiously based, this includes readings and exercises of general use in nonviolence training.pbk £14.00 |
| • | The Collective Experience – articles and poems about communal living(The Communes Network, 1986)Tells it like it was.pbk £2.00 |
| • | Oppose and Propose! – Lessons from Movement for a New SocietyAndrew Cornell(AK Press, Edinburgh, 2011)MNS was a radical pacifist network active in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s, and a pioneer of methods of consensus decion-making, communal living, and nonviolent direct action. This book – full of documents, interviews and analysis – recovers a missing link in anti-authoritarian radical history.pbk £9.00 |
| • | St Paul from the Trenches – A rendering of the Epistles to the Corinthians and Ephesians done in France during the Great WarGerald Warre Cornish(The Tantivy Press, Malvern, 1948)A noteworthy re-translation (from the Greek) of two sections of the bible, undertaken by the author before he was killed in action in 1916.hbk £10.00 |
| • | Essays Towards PeaceGeorge ML Davies(Sheppard Press, London, 1944)This collection of essays, some dating back to the time of the First World War, is frequently insightful – though almost all are expressed from a specifically Christian perspective.pbk £5.00 |
| • | The Non-Violent Cross – a Theology of Revolution and PeaceJames W Douglass(The Macmillian Company, New York, USA, 1970)A powerful espousal of Christian pacifism from a major writer in the field.pbk £10.00 |
| • | The Spirit of the Quakers(Ed) Geoffrey Durham(Yale University Press, USA, 2010)An anthology sharing many facets of Quaker beliefs, by means of both historical and recent writings.pbk £9.99 |
| • | Community for LifeUlrich Eggers(Herald Press, Scotdale, Pennsylvania, USA, 1988)A visitor tells of life inside a colony of the Hutterian Brethren.pbk £5.50 |
| • | Peace, War and the Christian ConscienceJoseph J Fahey(Pax Christi, London, 2003)An outline history of Christian attitudes to war.pmphlt £2.50 |
| • | A Call to NonviolenceJohn Ferguson(Fellowship of Reconciliation, New Malden, Surrey, 1970)A brief summary of explanations of and arguments for Christian nonviolence.pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | The Biblical Basis of PacifismJohn Ferguson(Fellowship of Reconciliation, London, 1993)pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | The Enthronement of LoveJohn Ferguson(Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1950)A classic espousal of Christian pacifism.hbk £6.50 |
| • | The Enthronement of LoveJohn Ferguson(Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1951)A reprint of the classic espousal of Christian pacifism.hbk £6.50 |
| • | Lessons from Kosovo/a: Alternatives to War – The Peace Testimony in the Twenty-First CenturyDiana Francis(Quaker Peace & Social Witness, London, 2001)pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | Holding Faith – Creating Peace in a Violent WorldDavid Gee(Quaker Books, London, 2011)The writer looks at what a commitment to peace might mean in a violent world; he argues for a “practical faith” that empowers our humanity.pbk £8.00 |
| • | A Light that is Shining: an introduction to the QuakersHarvey Gillman(Quaker Home Service, London, 1997)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Iraq – A journey of hope and peacePeggy Faw Gish(Herald Press, Ontario, Canada, 2004)The experiences of a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams who went to Iraq before, during and after the invasion.pbk £6.00 |
| • | On Earth Peace – A Symposium by Communicants of the Church of England(Ed) Percy Hartill(James Clarke & Co, London, 1944)Christian sympathetic to pacifism address a varied selection of essays to their fellow Christians.£5.75 |
| • | Demanding Peace: Christian Responses to War and ViolenceAE Harvey(SCM Press, 1999)pbk £8.95 |
| • | Reconciliation but not Resignation – and other biographical essaysArthur William Hopkins(Harpenden Congregational and Presbyterian Church, 1968)Essays reprinted from this church’s monthly magazine; most of the items concern the writers of hymns.pbk £2.50 |
| • | There’s a Tree in the Meadow – a book of destinyTina Hyder(Advocate House, Sarasota, florida, USA, 2006)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Spirituality & Nonviolence(International Journal of Nonviolence, Washington DC, USA, 1996)A varied selection of contributions – mostly from committed nonviolentists.pbk £4.50 |
| • | Recovering Memory: Guatemalan Churches and the Challenge of PeacemakingPaul Jeffrey(Life & Peace Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, 1998)pbk £8.00 |
| • | Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social thought(Eds) Willis Jenkins and Jennifer M McBride(Fortress Press, Minneapolis, USA, 2010)A re-assessment of the activism and theology of two of the 20th century’s best-known Christian martyrs – Dietrich Bonheoffer and Martin Luther King.pbk £16.99 |
| • | Hostage in IraqNorman Kember(Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 2007)The story of this Christian pacifist’s months as a hostage. We have copies signed by the author.hbk £14.95 |
| • | In Harm’s Way – A History of Christian Peacemaker TeamsKathleen Kern(The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 2009)Christian Peacemaker Teams came to prominence in Britain in 2005, following the kidnap of four people in Iraq including the British CPT supporter Norman Kember. But the CPT network had been active for 10 years prior to then, and this detailed history deals with its origins, its actions, and its ideology.pbk £12.99 (published at £25.00) |
| • | Strength to LoveMartin Luther King Jr(Fontana Books, 1974)A collection of MLK’s sermons.pbk £2.50 |
| • | The Unequal World We Inhabit – Quaker responses to terrorism and fundamentalismPaul Lacey(Quaker Books, London, 2010)Based on the author’s 2010 Swarthmore Lecture, this book looks at ways in which pacifists can respond to devastating violence.pbk £8.00 |
| • | The Gospel of Peace -The Biblical Basis of PacifismJohn Lampen(Fellowship of Reconciliation, London, 1995)pmphlt £1.75 |
| • | Does the New Testament Sanction War?George HC MacGregor(The Church of Scotland Peace Society, Lockerbie, c1930s)pmphlt £2.50 |
| • | The New Testament Basis of PacifismGeorge HC MacGregor(Fellowship of Reconciliation, London, 1953)hbk £5.00 |
| • | Defeat TriumphantLewis MacLachlan(Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1947)hbk £5.00 |
| • | Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear AgeJoanna Rogers Macy(New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, USA, 1983)One of the most famous books of its era for people wanting to take part in despair and empowerment workshops.£4.25 |
| • | Unholy Warfare – The Church and the Bomb(Eds) David Martin & Peter Mullen(Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983)An anthology, from many perspectives.£2.50 |
| • | The Ministry of Reconciliation – Christian Pacifism: Its Grounds and Implications(Ed) Hugh Martin(Headley Brothers, London, 1916)A very rare copy of the original edition of what was a highly topical classic of its era.£25.00 |
| • | Kill for Peace?Richard McSorley(Corpus Books, New York, USA, 1970)A Christian pacifist argues that “just war” theory had become unrealistic.pbk £3.75 |
| • | SeedsThomas Merton (Edited with an introduction by Robert Inchausti)(Shambhala, Boston, USA, 2002)The writings of this Catholic contemplative “combine the candour of Thoreau with the moral vision of Gandhi”. Apparently.pbk £11.99 |
| • | Raids on the UnspeakableThomas Merton(New Directions, New York, USA, 1964)A collection of writings showing Merton’s move towards more direct engagement with the real world – brief but challenging writings.pbk £4.50 |
| • | The Living BreadThomas Merton(Burns & Oates, London, 1956)Primarily religious writings.hbk £2.50 |
| • | Called for Peace: South Asia Youth Conference May 2002(Eds) Leslie Nathaniel and Adrian Watkins(Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Delhi, India, 2003)A collection of articles and documents from the conference – a resource for people interested in peace and reconciliation.pbk £2.90 |
| • | International Thoughts: The Reflections of a Catholic PacifistJohn Nibb(Elliot Stock, London, 1937)Writings on pacifism, militarism and nationalism.pbk £2.50 |
| • | Funerals and Memorial Meetings(Quaker Books, 2003)pbk £4.00 |
| • | War and the ChristianC E Raven(Student Christian Movement Press, London, 1938)A book which insists that the churches face up to the problem of war as the dominant moral and social issue of the day.£4.75 |
| • | The Christian’s Alternative to War: An Examination of Christian PacifismLeyton Richards(Student Christian Movement, London, 1929)A leading pacifist writer approaches the issue from a Christian perspective.£14.50 |
| • | Christianity is PacifismWilliam Robinson(George Allen & Unwin, 1933)”Persuasive” according to a major contemporary theological journal.£20.00 |
| • | Evolving the Spirit: From Democracy to Peace – Ten Steps to Change the WorldAnthony Russell(DreamStar Books, 2012)The book attempts to confront that notion that we are helpless in the face of problems around us. Despite some interesting ideas, its prescriptions and its insights are really only intelligble to those of a religious bent.pbk £12.95 |
| • | The Church and the BombBishop of Salisbury(Hodder & Stoughton, 1982)pbk £2.50 |
| • | The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal ConflictKen Sande(Baker Book House, 1991)pbk £9.00 |
| • | Breaking Throug – Theory and Practice of Wholiistic LivingWalter and Dorothy Schwarz(Green Books, Hartland, Devon, 1987)The authors look at how we might move away from aggression and selfishness towards simpler and richer lives.pbk £12.95 |
| • | Answer Time on Tower HillDonald Soper(Hodder and Stoughton, 1937)pbk £13.00 |
| • | Popular Fallacies about the Christian FaithDonald Soper(Hodder and Stoughton, 1938)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Nuclear Weapons – A Catholic Response(Ed) Walter Stein(Cardinal Books, London, 1963)A symposium on the morality of nuclear warfare – all contributors concluding that, even from a non-pacifist perspective, the weapons are impermissible.pbk £2.50 |
| • | Christian Nuclear PerspectiveJohn J Vincent(Epworth Press, London, 1964)A (very) Christian look at nuclear weapons issues.pbk £3.75 |
| • | Community in Paraguay – A Visit to the BruderhofBob and Shirley Wagoner(Plough Publishing House, Farmington, Pennsylvania, USA, 1991)The community described was a pacifist community set up in Paraguay in 1941 by people seeking refuge from involvement in the Second World War.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Christian Pacifism and RearmamentAlex Wood(Peace Pledge Union, London, 1937)A fine, succinct explanation of a Christian take on the necessity to be neither an appeaser of dictators nor a supporter of war preparations, from the early days of the PPU.pmphlt £5.00 |
Topic 7: Disarmament, arms race
These books deal with: arms races and disarmament; geopolitical strategy; the Cold War and detente; arms control and legal approaches to disarmament; governmental and inter-governmental issues and the United Nations; “security” (in the sense of its mainstream definition); neutrality; and specific weapons and weapon systems other than WMDs.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | Disarmament DiplomacyNo 86 Autumn 2007(Acronym Institute)pbk £2.00 |
| • | Landmines in Angola(Africa Watch, New York, 1993)One of the reports on the impact of landmines which led to increasing pressure for the weapons to be banned.pbk £1.50 |
| • | The Wasted £30,000,000,000 Spent on False SecurityFrank Allaun(NATSOPA, London, 1973)pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Defence without the Bomb(Taylor & Francis, London, 1983)The report of the Alternative Defence Commission, dealing with the threats, as well as with military and non-military options.pbk £4.00 |
| • | Conventional and Non-Nuclear Disarmament – A Question for Peace Movements(Ed) Rosemary Bechler(World Peace Council, Helsinki, 1989)£8.00 |
| • | Drone Warfare – Killing by Remote ControlMedea Benjamin(Verso, London, 2013)A comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest-growing and most secretive aspects of global militarisation, this book – by a leading member of the US feminist anti-militarist organisation Codepink – is an updated version of the 2012 US original.pbk £9.99 |
| • | War in the New CenturyJeremy Black(Continuum, 2001)£7.00 |
| • | World Armament & World Hunger – A Call for ActionWilly Brandt(Victor Gollancz, 1986)£3.50 |
| • | Next Step to PeaceFenner Brockway(London Co-operative Society Political Committee, 1970)pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | Restructuring of Arms Production in Western Europe(Eds) Michael Brzoska and Peter Lock(SIPRI / Oxford University Press, 1992)£16.50 |
| • | To Walk Without Fear – The Global Movement to Ban Landmines(Eds) Maxwell A Cameron, Robert J Lawson, and Brian W Tomlin(Oxford University Press, Toronto, Canada, 1998)A comprehensive account of the movement to ban landmines.pbk £5.75 |
| • | Drone TheoryGregoire Chamayou(Penguin Books, London, 2015)This book is a vigorous polemic against the use of robot warfare around the world; it draws on philosophical debate, moral lessons from Greek mythology, and transcripts of conversations between drone operators, and re-evaluates the socio-political impact of drone warfare.pbk £6.99 |
| • | Eleventh Hour for EuropeKen Coates, Peggy Duff, Dan Smith, Mary Kaldor, EP Thompson & Roy Medvedev(Spokesman, 1981)£2.00 (pbk) / £4.00 (hbk) |
| • | Spring in Moscow – END papers 15(Ed) Ken Coates(Spokesman, 1987)pbk £3.95 |
| • | The Most Dangerous Decade – World Militarism and the New Non-aligned Peace MovementKen Coates(Spokesman, 1984)pbk £3.95 |
| • | Empire No More! … the Lion and Wolf shall ceaseKen Coates(Spokesman, 2004)pbk £11.95 |
| • | Kill Chain – Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins(Andrew Cockburn(Verso, London, 2015)An essential history of drone warfare, revealing the powerful interests which turned the Pentagon towards remote-control killing.hbk £20.00 |
| • | Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues(Ed) Marjorie Cohn(Olive Branch Press, Northampton, Mass, USA, 2015)Expert analysis, including documentation of civilian casualities by leading campaigns in the field, details of legal cases, and a look at the domestic use of drones.pbk £15.99 |
| • | Beyond the National Interest: The Future of UN Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in an Era of US PrimacyJean-Marc Coicaud(United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington DC, USA, 2007)pbk £9.99 |
| • | Convenient Killing – Armed Drones and the “Playstation” MentalityChris Cole, Mary Dobbing and Amy Hailwood(Fellowshiip of Reconciliation, Oxford, 2010)The report which helped to launch a new campaign against armed drones.pbk £3.00 |
| • | A “Checkbook” for Peace & World AffairsHK Compton(HK Compton, 1997)pbk £9.00 |
| • | Disarmament Negotiations – The Way ForwardGeorge Crossley(Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1984)pmphlt £3.50 |
| • | Aotearoa / New Zealand at the World CourtKate Dewes and Robert Green(Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1999)The story of New Zealand attempts to bring the issue of nuclear weapons to the World Court.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | A Step by Step Approach to World Peace, Region by Region – A proposal for world peace through regional peace and development programmesTed Dunn(Gooday Publishers, 1988)pbk £2.50 |
| • | Nurturing the Natural Laws of Peace – through Regional Peace and Development ProgrammesTed Dunn(New European Publications, 2002)pbk £10.95 |
| • | Regional Peace and Development ProgrammesTed Dunn(Alternatives to War Press, 1993)pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | The Case against War – The Essential Legal Inquiries, Opinions and Judgements concerning War in Iraq(Eds) George Farebrother and Nicholas Kollerstrom(Legal Enquiry Steering Group, 2003)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Blue Geopolitics – The United Nations Reform and the Future of the Blue HelmetsVicenc Fisas(Pluto Press, 1995)£5.00 |
| • | Arms Control: Management or Reform? – RIIA Chatham House Papers 31Lawrence Freedman(Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986)£3.50 |
| • | The Cool Arm of Destruction: Modern Weapons and Moral InsensitivityRobert W Gardiner(The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, USA, 1974)How can people cope with the threat of total destuction when modern weapons change the way we think and feel about mass murder?hbk £3.00 |
| • | The Russian Threat – Its Myths and RealitiesJim Garrison & Pyare Shivpuri(Gateway Books, 1983)pbk £3.95 |
| • | War is not Inevitable(Peace Book Co, London, 1938)Based on the lectures given as the 13th “Problems of Peace” series at the Geneva Institute for International Relations in August 1938. An illuminating insight into the hopelessness of non-pacifist approaches to the approach of world war.hbk £25.00 |
| • | Soviet Military Power – The Annotated and Corrected Version of the Pentagon’s GuideTom Gervasi(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988)hbk £7.50 |
| • | Agreements for Arms Control: A Critical SurveyJozef Goldblat(Taylor & Francis / SIPRI, 1982)hbk £9.50 |
| • | The Second Superpower – The Arms Race & the Soviet Union(Ed) Gerard Holden(CND Publications, 1985)£2.00 |
| • | The Search for Peace: A Century of Peace DiplomacyDouglas Hurd(Little, Brown and Company, 1997)Historically informative, in a not-very-wordy way; not quite as bad as it might have been from a mainstream politician. Became the basis of a TV series.hbk £5.00 |
| • | World Disarmament – an idea whose time has come(Eds) Ron Huzzard and Christopher Meredith(Spokesman, Nottingham, 1985)hbk £5.50 |
| • | Struggle for Disarmament – Special Issue of Strategic Analysis (Vol VI, No 1-2)(Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, India, 1982)hbk £3.50 |
| • | Verification TechnologiesBhupendra Jasani & Frank Barnaby(Berg Publishers, 1984)pbk £2.00 |
| • | The Emerging Role of the Security Council as an Instrument of International PeaceKasturchand M Jhabak(Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 1987)£2.50 |
| • | Neutrality: A policy for BritainPeter Johnson(Temple Smith, 1985)£4.50 |
| • | The War Machine – The Case Against The Arms RaceJames Avery Joyce(Hamlyn, 1981)pbk £2.50 |
| • | Dubious Specter – A Skeptical Look at the Soviet Nuclear ThreatFred M Kaplan(Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC, USA, 1980)pbk £2.00 |
| • | Verification – How Much is Enough?Allan S Krass(SIPRI / Taylor & Francis, 1985)hbk £1.50 |
| • | Sense About Defence – The Report of the Labour Party Defence Study Group(Quartet, 1977)pbk £4.00 |
| • | Emergence – Dimensions of a New World Order(Ed) Charles Lerche(Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1991)£4.95 |
| • | A Short Guide to DisarmamentAlan Litherland(Housmans, on behalf of the National Peace Council and a group of its member organisations, 1982)Though obviously dated, this (at the time very popular) pamphlet includes some ideas and arguments which are timeless.pmphlt £5.00 |
| • | British Writing on Disarmament from 1914 to 1978 – a bibliographyLorna Lloyd and Nicholas A Sims(Frances Pinter, 1979)pmphlt £8.00 |
| • | Disarmament – the Command of the TimesV Mamontov(Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR, 1979)hbk £2.00 |
| • | Mine Action After Diana – Progress in the Struggle Against LandminesStuart Maslen(Pluto Press, London, 2004)Outlines the global threat that mines present, and tbe evolution of the mine action programme worldwide.pbk £9.50 |
| • | Arms no More: Will humanity survive the coming century from global arms race and nuclear terror?Vijay Mehta(Arms Reduction Coalition, 2004)pbk £3.50 |
| • | The United Nations and Its Future in the 21st Century(Ed) Vijay Mehta(Spokesman, for Action for UN Renewal, 2005)pbk £10.00 |
| • | Bases and Battleships – An Introduction to Foreign Military PresenceJohn M Miller(International Peace Bureau, Geneva, 1989)£2.50 |
| • | From Hiroshima to the Hague: A guide to the World Court ProjectKeith Mothersson(International Peace Bureau, 1992)£6.50 |
| • | The Arms Race – A Programme for World DisarmamentPhilip Noel-Baker(John Calder, London, 1960)pbk £7.50 |
| • | The Way to World Disarmament – Now!Philip Noel-Baker(Union of Democratic Control, London, 1963)pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | Semialignment and Western Security(Ed) Nils Orvik(Croom Helm, 1986)hbk £7.95 |
| • | Peace and Disarmament – Academic Studies(Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1980)Contains a lot of useful historical information – albeit in an official context.hbk £2.00 |
| • | Planetary Legion for Peace: Story of Their War and Our Peace 1940-2000Romulus Rexner(Veritas Foundation, 1987)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence – Studies in International Security 18Adam Roberts(Chatto & Windus, for IISS, 1976)£7.50 |
| • | Lessons from Iraq: The UN must be reformedDavid Roberts(Action for UN Renewal, London, 2004)pmphlt, £1.50 |
| • | Germany and Europe in Transition(Eds) Adam Daniel Rotfeld and Walther Stutzle(SIPRI / Oxford University Press, 1991)hbk £5.00 |
| • | Peaceful CoexistenceAndrew Rothstein(Penguin, 1955)pbk £2.00 |
| • | Safe & Sound – Disarmament and Development in the 80sClyde Sanger(Zed Press, 1982)pbk £3.00 |
| • | The Name of the Chamber Was Peace(Science for Peace / Samual Stevens & Company, Toronto, Canada, 1988)(Zed Press, 1982)A selection of the Science for Peace public lectures, and University College lectures in peace studies, Toronto, 1986.pbk £3.00 |
| • | Military Inc – Inside Pakistan’s Military EconomyAyesha Siddiqa(Pluto Press, London, 2007)The author shows how the power of the military has transformed Pakistani society. Does democracy have a future after the merging of the military and corporate sectors?pbk £19.99 |
| • | Approaches to Disarmament – An Introductory AnalysisNicholas A Sims(Friends Peace & International Relations Committee, 1974)pbk £2.00 |
| • | Anti-personnel Weapons(SIPRI / Taylor & Francis, 1978)£6.50 |
| • | Non-Military Options for BritainDan Smith(Bradford University School of Peace Studies / Housmans, 1982)No 6 in the Peace Studies Papers series.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Prospectus for a Habitable Planet(Eds) Dan Smith and EP Thompson(Penguin, 1987)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Prospectus for a Habitable Planet(Eds) Dan Smith and EP Thompson(Penguin, 1987)Breaking up the Cold War – analysis, alternatives, and rethinking Europe.pbk £3.00 |
| • | A Culture of Peace – Dream or Achievable Goal?(Ed) Fred Starkey(Pax Legalis / Institute of Law and Peace, 2001)£4.00 |
| • | Sharpening International Sanctions – Toward a Stronger Role for the United NationsJohn Stremlau(Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1996)£2.00 |
| • | Discounted Casualties – The Human Cost of Depleted UraniumAkira Tashiro(The Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima, Japan, 2001)pbk £7.25 |
| • | Protest and Survive(Eds) EP Thompson and Dan Smith(Penguin Special, 1980)pbk £3.50 |
| • | European Defence: Meeting the Strategic ChallengePeter Truscott(IPPR, 2000)£2.50 |
| • | Regional Conference for the World Disarmament Campaign(United Nations, New York, 1988)pbk £2.50 |
| • | Regional Conference for the World Disarmament Campaign(United Nations, New York, 1988)Programme and proceedings of the March 1987 conference in Beijing, China.pbk £2.50 |
| • | Symposium on Global Security for the Twenty-First Century(United Nations, New York, 1987)Proceedings of the symposium held in Florence, Italy, in December 1986.£2.50 |
| • | The Blue Helmets: A Review of United Nations Peace-keeping(United Nations, 1990)£5.50 |
| • | The United Nations and Disarmament: 1945-1985(United Nations, New York, 1985)A definitive round-up of international progess and the lack of it.pbk £2.00 |
| • | The United Nations versus the Arms Race(UN Department of Public Information, New York, USA, 1980)pbk £2.00 |
| • | Writ of Summons: Legal Proceedings on the Deployment of Cruise Missiles in the NetherlandsAHJ van den Biesen(Ban the Cruise Missiles, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1986)pbk £2.50 |
| • | The Disarmer’s Handbook of military technology and organizationAndrew Wilson(Penguin, 1983)Much of the information in this guide is still relevant as homework for campaigners today.pbk £2.50 |
| • | Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth – Landmines and the Global Legacy of WarPhilip C Winslow(Beacon Press, Boston, USA, 1997)hbk £16.99 |
Topic 8: Nuclear and other WMDs
These are books dealing with: nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons systems (including “Star Wars” and space weapons) and nuclear disarmament; also other weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), such as chemical and biological weapons (CBW), and opposition thereto.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | The Decision to Use the Atomic BombGar Alperovitz(Fontana, London, 1996)pbk £5.50 |
| • | The Politics of Alternative Defence: A Policy for a Non-nuclear BritainAlternative Defence Commission(Paladin, 1987)pbk £4.95 |
| • | The Plague Makers: The Secret World of Biological WarfareWendy Barnaby(Vision Paperbacks, 1999)pbk £9.99 |
| • | For a Nuclear-Free FutureMeg Beresford with Diana Shelley(CND Publications, London, 1988)A pamphlet which gives the basic stance of CND in terms of how the world got into its nuclear-armed state, and what needs to be done to put it right. Unfortunaely, most of what needed to be done when this was published still needs doing….pmphlt £1.75 |
| • | New Nukes – India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear DisarmamentPraful Bidwai & Achin Vanaik introduction by Arundhati Roy(Signal Books, Oxford, 2000)pbk £12.99 |
| • | Atomic Bombs and Human BeingsArthur Booth(Quaker Peace & Service, London, 1981)A reprint of an article originally published by UNESCO.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | In Search of the Fourth FreedomHoward S Brembeck(Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, India, 1998)A plan for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, and the freeing of the world from the fear of war, by building on the increase in global interdependence.hbk £12.95 |
| • | Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph RotblatAndrew Brown(OUP, Oxford, 2012)Repelled by the idea that science had been harnessed to develop weapons of mass destruction, Joseph Rotblat spent many years promoting social responsibility within science, including by establishing the influential Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.hbk £18.99 |
| • | The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and World SecurityRip Bulkeley and Hans Gunter Brauch(AFES Press, for the International Group of Researchers on the ABM Treaty, Mosbach, Germany, 1988)A clear and informative account of the issues.pbk £3.00 |
| • | The New Nuclear Danger: George W Bush’s Military-Industrial ComplexHelen Caldicottt(The New Press, New York, USA, 2002)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Namibia: A Contract to Kill – The Story of Stolen Uranium and the British Nuclear ProgrammeThe Campaign Against the Namibian Uranium Contracts(Action on Namibia Publications, London, 1986)CANUC, the group which authored this pamphlet, was a key, and very active, link-up of solidarity and anti-nuclear activists during this period.pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | In God We Trust: Christian Reflections on the Nuclear Arms Race(Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, London, 1986)A collection of essays by theologians and campaigners.pmphlt £2.50 |
| • | The Nuclear Axis – Secret Collaboration betwen West Germany and South AfricaZdenek Cervenka and Barbara Rogers(Julian Friedmann, 1978)hbk £5.00 |
| • | Trident: Britain’s Independent Arms RaceMalcolm Chalmers(Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, London, 1984)pbk £7.50 |
| • | How to Survive an Atomic Attack: A Cold War Manual(Ed) John Christopher(Amberley, Stroud, 2014)This compilation – which will be startling to many who never lived through the height of the Cold War era – includes reprints of various of the official US advice booklets issued in the 1950s and 1960s. Of course, as with the equivalent British publications, the stark warnings of what “survivial” might mean had the effect of encouraging many people to oppose their government’s reliance on the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction.pbk £9.99 |
| • | Trident – Nuclear Proliferation the British Way (The Spokesman No 98)(ed) Ken Coates(Spokesman, Nottingham, 2008)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Nagasaki – The Massacre of the Innocent and UnknowingCraig Collie(Portobello Books, London, 2011)A treatise on a very well-documented historical event, but written in a gripping style more like a thriller.pbk £20.00 |
| • | Overkill: The Story of Modern WeaponsJohn Cox(Peacock Books, an imprint of Penguin Books, 1977)pbk £2.75 |
| • | Overkill: The Story of Modern WeaponsJohn Cox(Pelican Books, 1981)pbk £2.00 |
| • | Bioterror and Biowarfare – A Beginner’s GuideMalcolm Dando(Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2006)A clear unravelling of the politics and the technology.pbk £4.99 |
| • | The Death of Deterrence – Consequences of the New Nuclear Arms RaceMalcolm Dando and Paul Rogers(CND Publications, 1984)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Pacific Women Speak Out – for independence and denuclearisationZohl de Ishtar(Pacific Connections, Annadnale, Australia, 1998)A collection of stories of resistance against incredible odds, stories of survival.pbk £4.50 |
| • | Aotearoa / New Zealand at the World CourtKate Dewes and Robert Green(Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1999)The story of New Zealand attempts to bring the issue of nuclear weapons to the World Court.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Fuelling the Nuclear Arms Race – The Links Between Nuclear Power and Nuclear WeaponsSheila Durie and Rob Edwards(Pluto Press, 1982)pbk £2.00 |
| • | The Yellow Rainmakers: Are Chemical Weapons Being Used in Southeast Asia?Grant Evans(Verso, 1983)pbk £4.00 |
| • | Nuclear Weapons: the way aheadRonald Gaskell(The Menard Press, London, 1982)pbk £3.50 |
| • | The Devil’s Repertoire – or, Nuclear Bombing and the Life of ManVictor Gollancz(Victor Gollancz, London, 1958)pbk £5.00 |
| • | The Naked Nuclear Emperor: Debunking Nuclear Deterrence – A Primer for Safer Security StrategiesRobert Green(Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2000)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Re-Thinking Nuclear DeterrenceRobert Green(Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2001)A summary of arguments from ‘The Naked Nuclear Emperor: Debunking Nuclear Deterrence’ by the same author.pbk £2.00 |
| • | London After the BombOwen Greene, Barry Rubin, Neil Turok, Philip Webber and Graeme Wilkinson(OUP, 1982)£2.25 |
| • | HiroshimaJohn Hersey(Penguin, 1946)The original edition of one of the classics of the atomic age – a powerful book written only months after the first atomic attack.pbk £5.00 |
| • | HiroshimaJohn Hersey(Penguin, London, 2009)This classic of the atomic age, with the author’s additional thoughts after returning to Hiroshima forty years later.pbk £9.99 |
| • | A Short History of Nuclear Folly – Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-upRudolph Herzog(Melville House, New York, 2013)A sardonic people’s history, covering some of the lesser-known horror stories, and near-horror stories, of the nuclear age. Well researched, and illuminating even for long-time anti-nuclear campaigners.hbk £18.99 |
| • | The British Nuclear Weapons Programme 1952-2002(Eds) Douglas Holdstock and Frank Barnaby(Frank Cass, London, 2003)A well-informed, factual book on all aspects of nuclear weaponry, with a foreword by Joseph Rotblat.hbk £35.00 |
| • | CND at 60Kate Hudson(Public Reading Rooms, London, 2018)This book, by CND General Secretary Kate Hudson, is the inside story of six decades of a long-running (and still all-too-necessary) peace organisaton. A timely publication, coinciding with the recent UN call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons.pbk £12.95 |
| • | CND: Now More Than Ever – The Story of a Peace MovementKate Hudson(Vision Paperbacks, 2005)pbk £10.99 |
| • | From Bikini to Belau: the nuclear colonisation of the PacificPeter D Jones(War Resisters’ International, 1988)pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | The Children of the Ashes – The People of Hiroshima After the BombRobert Jungk(Paladin Books, London, 1985)The classic, compassionate account of the author’s visits to Hiroshima in the aftermath of the war and again years later. pbk £2.50 |
| • | Thinking about the UnthinkableHerman Kahn(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1962)An intellectual tour de force – with great logic and subtlety – on the subject of nuclear weapons, nuclear war and the concept and strategy of deterrence, written without taking a moral stance. The second respected (including by many disagreeing with his conclusions) classic book on this topic by this author, following his On Thermonuclear War, which frorced people to face up to the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe. hbk £11.50 |
| • | Disarming Europe(Eds) Mary Kaldor and Dan Smith(Merlin Press, 1982)pbk £3.50 |
| • | Dubious Specter – A Skeptical Look at the Soviet Nuclear ThreatFred M Kaplan(Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC, USA, 1980)pbk £2.00 |
| • | Security with Nuclear Weapons? – Different Perspectives on National Security(Ed) Regina Cowen Karp(SIPRI / Oxford University Press, 1991)One of the best collections of serious writing on this subject at the time; includes coverage of proliferation and of non-nuclearism, and deals with the issue of threshold states and their different political perspectives.hbk £7.50 |
| • | Out of the Nuclear Shadow(Eds) Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian(Zed Books, London, 2001)A selection of writings challenging the nuclearisation of South Asia, from the time of the Indian and Pakistani bomb tests. pbk £4.00 |
| • | At Least Cruise is CleanLynchcombe(Niccolo Press, c 1984)A tirade about how the Berkshire town of Newbury was sold 96 cruise missiles, how central government lied, how the local press closed its eyes, and how business interests rallied behind the scenes.pmphlt £4.50 |
| • | Nuclear-Free Defence(Eds) Louis Mackay and David Fernbach(Heretic Books, London, 1983)A symposium wherein 25 people who are advocates of a variety of positions – from proponents of the use of conventional forces, to pacifists committed to nonviolent resistance – answer a series of questions, dealing with issues such as what is being defended, the principles of foreign policy, the armaments industry, women and the military, and what are acceptable forms of resistance.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Some of the People all the TimeAlastair Mackie(Book Guild Publishing, Brighton, Sussex, 2006)An autobiography by a one-time Air Commodore and H-bomber pilot, turned health educator and nuclear disarmament campaigner (becoming Vice-Chair of CND).hbk £17.99 |
| • | Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb TestsNic Maclellan(ANU Press, 2017)The story of the 1950s series of British tests, and the history of that as reflected in the experiences of the Pacific islands and of the military veterans.pbk £17.99 |
| • | The Pax Legalis Papers – Nuclear Conspiracy and the LawRobert Manson(Jon Carpenter, Oxford, 1995)Arising out of practical efforts of litigation, and backed by wide research, this is the first sustained legal critique of nuclearism in British domestic law.pbk £3.00 |
| • | Unholy Warfare – The Church and the Bomb(Eds) David Martin & Peter Mullen(Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983)An anthology, covering many perspectives.£2.50 |
| • | Russia, Europe, The Bomb, and the Fall of Western EuropeBrian May(Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984)hbk £5.50 |
| • | The Nuclear Threat: Intolerable and Avoidable – The arguments against nuclear weapons (and the arguments for)Jim McCluskey(Jim McCluskey, c 2008)pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | The Hidden Human Cost of TridentDi McDonald & Jamie Woolley(Abolition 2000 UK, 2007)Seventh in the Blackaby Papers series dealing with defence and disarmament issues. After all the arguments about the financial implications of the continuing British nuclear weapons programme, this report also documents the human and environmental costs.pbk £2.00 |
| • | Nuclear Weapons: Who’s in Charge?Hugh Miall(Macmillan, 1987)£4.00 |
| • | The Nuclear Weapons Freeze and Arms Control(Ed) Steven E Miller(Ballinger Publishing, Cambrdge, Massachusetts, USA, 1984)pbk £9.50 |
| • | The CND Story(Eds) John Minnion and Philip Bolsover(Allison & Busby, 1983)The first 25 years of CND in the words of many of the people involved.pbk £2.00 |
| • | Steps Towards European Nuclear DisarmamentAlva Myrdal and Kalevi Sorsa(Spokesman, Nottingham, 1981)Two papers for the Rome Consultation on European Nuclear Disarmament.pbk £3.25 |
| • | Back from the AbyssMichael Nicholson(1984)The author’s personal odyssey around northern Europe discussing the idea of a regional nuclear-free zone.pmphlt £1.50 |
| • | Hiroshima NotesKenzaburo Oe (trans: David L Swain and Toshi Yonezawa)(Marion Boyars Publishers, London, 1997)This winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature writes powerfully of the human face of the destroyed city. His insights into human dignity are a powerful indictment of the Nuclear Age.pbk £6.00 |
| • | Voices of Survival in the Nuclear AgeDennis Paulson(Wisdom Publications, 1986)£2.00 |
| • | From Protest to Resistance – The Direct Action Movement Against Nuclear WeaponsPeace News – various authors(Mushroom Bookshop, Nottingham, 1981) An all-too-brief, but powerful, history of nonviolent activism at the cutting edge of the anti-nuclear weapons movement in the 1950s ansd 1960s – published just as this movement was to see a new upsurge. The fine range of contributors includes Dennis Gould, Pat Arrowsmith, Adrian Mitchell and Nicolas Walter, and includes excerpts from a historic court case, iconic pictures, and a timeline.pbk £6.50 |
| • | Walking to Greenham – How the Peace-camp began and the Cold War endedAnn Pettitt(Honno, Dinas Powys, 2006)What the initiators of the Greenham camp went on to do next.pbk £8.99 |
| • | The Writing on the SkyOliver Postgate(The Menard Press, London, 1983)pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | Thinking it through: the Plain Man’s Guide to the BombOliver Postgate(The Menard Press, London, 1982)This essay summarises a series of speeches given by this author (well-known for his books and television films for children) around the south of England, and on the radio, the previous year.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | The Rossing File: The Inside Story of Britain’s Secret Contract for Namibian UraniumAlun Roberts(The Campaign Against the Namibian Uranium Contracts, London, 1980)pbk £4.00 |
| • | 60 Years of Nuclear History – Britain’s Hidden AgendaFred Roberts(John Carpenter Publishing, Charlbury, 1999)An analytical history, showing the interconnectedness of military and civilian nuclear developments.pbk £3.75 |
| • | Common Sense and Nuclear WarfareBertrand Russell(George Allen & Unwin, 1959)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Towards the Nuclear HolocaustMartin Ryle(The Menard Press, London, 1981)Written by a Physics Nobel Prize winner, this well-researched text was one of the first pamphlets published by The Menard Press when the escalation of the Cold War in the eighties led them to branch out from being a publisher of literary texts to also dealing with nuclear issues.pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | Inside Nuclear South Asia(Ed) Scott D Sagan(Stanford University Press, USA, 2009)Cites evidence that the presence of nuclear weapons in South Asia has increased the frequency and propensity of low-level violence, further destabilising the region.pbk £23.95 |
| • | The Church and the BombBishop of Salisbury(Hodder & Stoughton, 1982)pbk £2.50 |
| • | The Gift of Time – The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons NowJonathan Schell(Granta, 1998)A powerful and still all-too-relevant book by an acclaimed writer.pbk £4.00 |
| • | The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass DestructionJonathan Schell(Verso, 2003)How the world faces an inescapable choice between nuclear abolition and rapid prolifetation.pbk £3.50 |
| • | On Active Service for Peace – Ex-Services CND(Ed) Rita Stanleigh, with Michael Floyd and Morris Brodie(Ex-Services CND, London, 1995)How people with military experience came to identify with nuclear disarmament. pbk £2.25 |
| • | How to get Rid of the BombGavin Scott(Fontana, 1982)pbk £2.00 |
| • | Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarSusan Southard(Sounvenir Press, London, 2017)The author has spent a decade interviewing and researching the lives of the survivors, collecting eye-witness accounts. The story is told through the lives of five teenage survivors from 1945 to the present dat.pbk £15.00 |
| • | Nuclear Weapons – A Catholic Response(Ed) Walter Stein(Cardinal Books, London, 1963)A symposium on the morality of nuclear warfare – all contributors concluding that, even from a non-pacifist perspective, the weapons are impermissible.pbk £2.50 |
| • | A Nuclear-Weapons-Free World – Desirable? Possible?(Eds) Jack Steinberger, Bhalchandra Udgaonkar, and Joseph Rotblat(Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1993)An authoritative study organised by the Pugwash movement.pbk £3.00 |
| • | Star Wars: Full Spectrum SycophancyJack Straw and Ken Coates(Spokesman Books, for Socialist Renewal, Nottingham, 2001)The briefing in support of British backing for the US’s missile defence (Star Wars) system, by the then Foreign Scretary, Jack Straw, is taken apart point by point by Ken Coates.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Hiroshima – In Memoriam and Today(Ed) Hitoshi Takayama(The Himat Group, 2000)Consists mostly of memoirs of survivors.pbk £3.00 |
| • | Over Our Dead Bodies – Women Against the Bomb(Ed) Dorothy Thompson(Virago, 1983)pbk £4.00 |
| • | Protest and Survive(Eds) EP Thompson and Dan Smith(Penguin Special, 1980)pbk £3.50 |
| • | Star WarsE P Thompson(Penguin, 1985)pbk £2.00 |
| • | Crucible of Despair: Effects of Nuclear WarAnthony Tucker & John Gleisner(Menard Press, 1982)£2.50 |
| • | Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons(Ed) Jonathan B Tucker(MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)pbk £7.00 |
| • | Writ of Summons: Legal Proceedings on the Deployment of Cruise Missiles in the NetherlandsAHJ van den Biesen(Ban the Cruise Missiles, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1986)pbk £2.50 |
| • | Christian Nuclear PerspectiveJohn J Vincent(Epworth Press, London, 1964)A (very) Christian look at nuclear weapons issues.pbk £3.75 |
| • | Fates Worse than DeathKurt Vonnegut Jr(Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Nottingham, 1985)The author made a speech, of which this is the text, in the USA in May 1982, and sent the text as his contribution to the inaugural European Nuclear Disarmament Convention which took place the next month. Copies of this classic little pamphlet have recently come to light.pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | The Truth About Trident – Disarming the Nuclear ArgumentTimmon Milne Wallis(Luath Press, 2016)Long-time activist Tim Wallis has produced an amazingly comprehensive book on the topic of nuclear weapons, eloquently putting the many arguments against the official line.pbk £10.00 |
| • | The Nuclear Trap – An Escape RouteRobert E Walters(Pelican Books, 1974)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Crisis Over Cruise – A Plain Guide to the New WeaponsPhilip Webber, Graeme Wilkinson and Barry Rubin(Penguin, 1983)The background information to what the fuss was all about.pbk £2.00 |
| • | Unintended War – Beyond DeterrenceArthur Waskow(American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, USA, 1962)pmphlt £5.00 |
| • | The Terror of Balance: Deterrence, Rearmament and the Illusion of SecurityAndrew White(The Mernard Press, London, 1983)pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | On the Brink: Nuclear Proliferation and the Third WorldPeter Worsley(Third World Communications, 1987)£3.50 |
| • | Trident on Trial: The case for people’s disarmamentAngie Zelter(Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2001)The story of the early years of Trident Ploughshares, told by those involved.pbk £9.99 |
| • | Faslane 365 – A Year of Anti-Nuclear Blockades(Ed) Angie Zelter(Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2008)An account of a year’s actions at the home base of Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Anatomy of a Sacred Cow – Ruthless realism about NATO nuclear weapons & US basesKonni Zilliacus(Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, London, early 1960s)The author was an outspokenly radical anti-nuclear Labour MP from the early days of CND, whose views were controversial within the party … how little has changed. In fact, his radicalism was a bit much for some of the CND leadership in those days. (Geek note: This little pamphlet was beautifully designed by Reuben [not Robin, as the pamphlet itself mistakenly says] Fior, who was responsible for the classic 1962 redesign of the then-weekly Peace News.)pmphlt £6.50 |
Topic 9: Arms trade
These items deal with the arms trade; military industry and conversion; the economics of militarism and the military; and the military-industrial complex.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | Trading in Death – the Modern Arms RaceJames Adams(Pan Books, London, 1991)pbk £2.00 |
| • | The Naval Arms TradeIan Anthony(SIPRI/OUP, 1990)hbk £12.50 |
| • | Arms Export Regulations(Ed) Ian Anthony(SIPRI/OUP, 1991)Detailed coverage of national and multilateral arms transfer controls, covering 24 of the major arms exporting countries of the decade to 1990.hbk £20.00 |
| • | Whose Priorities? – A guide for campaigners on military and social spendingColin Archer(International Peace Bureau, Geneva, 2007)An excellent manual covering both the arguments and how to campaign about them, with plenty of examples from campaigns in different countries.pbk £7.50 |
| • | Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace: Economic Perspectives(Eds) Mats Berdal and Aichim Wennmann(Routledge, Oxford, 2010)Articulates the positive aspects of the economic value of peace; looks at new aspects of post-conflict reconstruction.pbk £11.99 |
| • | Subsidising a Deadly TradeSamuel Brittan(Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2001)This text is the transcript of the 2001 CAAT Lecture, given at the LSE in April that year, together with the transcript of the question and comment session which followed.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Death Pays a DividendFenner Brockway and Frederic Mullally(Victor Gollanz, London, 1944)hbk £2.00 |
| • | War is a Racket: How a Military Hero Blew the Whistle on Corporate MalfeasanceSmedley D Butler(Feral House, Port Townsend, Washington, USA, 2003)Written during the Great Depression, this book pulls no punches in its indictment of a corrupt military-industrial complex.pbk £6.95 |
| • | The Price of WarAlec Cairncross(Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986)hbk £7.50 |
| • | The Cost of Britain’s DefenceMalcolm Chalmers(Bradford University School of Peace Studies / Housmans, 1983)No 10 in the Peace Studies Papers series.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Peace, Profit or Plunder? – The Privatisation of Security in War-Torn African Societies(Eds) Jakkie Cilliers and Peggy Mason(Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 1999)A collection of expanded and refined versions of papers originally given at a conference of the same name in Pretoria the previous year.pbk £7.00 |
| • | Bombs for Breakfast: How the arms trade causes a vicious cycle of impoverishment, repression, and militarisation in the Third World(Committee on Poverty and the Arms Trade, London, 1978)The gist of this classic pamphlet is still all too relevant.pmphlt £4.00 |
| • | Death on Delivery: The Impact of the Arms Trade on the Third WorldHelen Collinson(Campaign Against Arms Trade, London, 1989)pbk £3.50 |
| • | Controlling the Arms Trade – The West versus the RestPaul Cornish(Bowerdean, 1996)No 10 in the Peace Studies Papers series.pbk £9.99 |
| • | Fiscal Planning for Total WarWL Crum, JF Fennelly and LH Seltzer(National Bureau of Economic Research, New York, 1942)hbk £5.00 |
| • | Economics of Peace and WarJohn Eaton(Lawrence & Wishart, 1952)No 10 in the Peace Studies Papers series.pbk £4.00 |
| • | The Economic Effects of Disarmament(The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by the United World Trust, 1963)A definitive look at the question “What will happen if Britain disarms?”; the figures might be out of date, but much of the logic and analysis could be a model for answering the same question today.pbk £7.50 |
| • | The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms TradeAndrew Feinstein(Penguin Books, London, 2012)In this authoritative guide to the business of war, the author – formerly an ANC MP in South Africa – pulls back the curtain on the secretive world of the arms trade, and the dirty dealing which is inherent in it. Includes new Afterword. pbk £9.99 |
| • | £60 a Second on DefenceRaymond Fletcher(McGibbon & Kee, 1963)£3.00 |
| • | The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms TradeNicholas Gilbey(New Internationalist Publications, Oxford, 2009)This new version of this author’s original No-Nonsense Guide published in 2002 is a hard-to-better up-to-date introduction to this issue by someone who’s had a leading role in anti-arms trade campaigning in Britain. pbk £7.99 |
| • | Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms TradePaul Holden(Zed Press, London, 2017)Although the work of arms trade campaigners in Britain has – over several decades – largely won the debate in progressive circles, there are still many people who believe the common justifications for the arms trade. This book – without taking a fully pacifist poistion – demolishes the myths about the value of the arms trade for the economy, trade, “securuity” and so on. A useful handbook for those wanting to argue the anti-arms trade case. pbk £9.99 |
| • | In the Public Interest: An Account of the Arms-to-Iraq AffairGerald James (Warner Books, London 1996)An account of the Thatcher government’s involvement in the covert arms trade – by the man who turned Astra Fireworks into a £100 million arms manufacturer. This updated edition includes the Scott Report findings. pbk £6.50 |
| • | The Economics of KillingVijay Mehta (Pluto Press, London, 2012)How the power of global elites, entrenched under globalisation, has created a deadly cycle of violence. pbk £14.99 |
| • | How Europe Armed for War (1871-1914)JT Walton Newbold(Blackfriars Press, London, 1916)A famous look at the early years of what became known as the military-industrial complex. hbk £12.00 |
| • | Arms or AidHugh Reay(Housmans, for War on Want, London, 1967)The text of Lord Reay’s address to the War on Want Convention held in London in the autumn of 1966.pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | Parallel Markets: Corruption in the International Arms TradeJoe Roeber(Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2005)pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Thus Spake Zaharoff: How the “merchants of death” see themselves and their trade, with quotations and commentsDonald Rodger(Campaign Against Arms Trade, London, 1980)pmphlt £1.50 |
| • | Wildcat: Anarchists Against the BombDonald Rooum(Freedom Press, 2003)Anti-arms trade comic strips.pbk £3.00 |
| • | Making Arms, Wasting Skills: Alternatives to militarism and arms productionSteve Schofield(Campaign Against Arms Trade, London, 2008)The latest useful background report from CAAT – which is a good example of a peace organisation which gains credibility for its ideas by having well-researched information to support its arguments. pbk £3.00 |
| • | Military Inc – Inside Pakistan’s Military EconomyAyesha Siddiqa(Pluto Press, London, 2007)The author shows how the power of the military has transformed Pakistani society. Does democracy have a future after the merging of the military and corporate sectors? pbk £16.99 |
| • | Private WarriorsKen Silverstein(Verso, London, 2000)A survey of the generals, gun-runners and national security staffers who now operate in the private sector: today’s private warriors who have a direct financial interest in war. pbk £6.50 |
| • | The International Trade in ArmsJohn Stanley and Maurice Pearton(Chatto & Windus for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1972)pbk £4.00 |
| • | Taking Aim at the Arms Trade – NGOs, Global Civil Society and the World Military OrderAnna Stavrianakis(Zed Books, London, 2010)A well-researched and incisive study, exposing the tensions inherent in some NGOs’ engagement with the arms trade. pbk £14.99 (reduced from £19.99) |
| • | The Facade of Arms Control – How the UK’s export licensing system facilitates the arms tradeAnna Stavrianakis(Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2008)pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | The Arms Trade with the Third WorldStockholm International Peace Research Institute(Penguin, 1975)The 1970s classic of the field. pbk £1.50 |
| • | The Small Arms Trade – a beginner’s guideRachel Stohl, Matt Schroeder and Dan Smith(Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2007)A useful introduction to the issue from three US researchers. pbk £9.99 |
| • | The War Business – the International trade in ArmamentsGeorge Thayer(Paladin, London, 1970)pbk £2.90 |
| • | As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela – Underground Adventures in the Arms & Torture TradeMark Thomas(Ebury Press, 2007)pbk £7.99 |
| • | Arming the Occupation – Israel and the Arms TradeMandy Turner(Campaign Against Arms Trade, London, 2002)A brief, but well-researched, round-up of the situation – dealing with the international trade, not just that involving the UK – and including a succinct guide to the political background. pbk £2.00 |
| • | The Fruits of War: How Military Conflict Accelerates TechnologyMichael White(Pocket Books, London, 2007)An interesting factual survey of some of the links between technology and war, though overstating the degree of cause and effect in an effort to persuade us that when it comes to the alleged inevitability of war, we should look on the bright side… pbk £8.99 |
| • | The Arms Fiixers – Controlling the Brokers and Shipping AgentsBrian Wood and Johan Peleman(International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 1999)A report which illuminates this shadowy corner of what is in any case a murky industry. pbk £4.00 |
Topic 10: Specific wars
This section includes writings about specific wars, as well as stories written by “participants”. But note that books dealing with current conflicts are usually included in the section of the shop’s stock dealing with the relevant area of the world rather than being found amongst the peace section – except for material about campaigns against these wars: of this, the polemical and campaigning material can be found here, and writings about the campaigns themselves in Topic 12.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
FIRST WORLD WAR
| • | Forgotten Voices of the Great WarMax Arthur(Ebury Press, in association with the Imperial War Museum, London, 2002)A history in the words of the men and women who were there, based on IWM sound archives. hbk £6.95 |
| • | Cunning Plans: Tommy Atkins’ hidden tactics to avoid combat on the Western Front in WW1- or Why “Blackadder Goes Forth” could have been a lot funnier (and more subversive)Roger Ball(Past Tense, London, 2015)Beginning to lift the lid on the hidden resistance. pmphlt £2.50 |
| • | Telling Tales About Men: Conceptions of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service During the First World WarLois S Bibbings(Manchester University Press, 2011)A brilliant exposure of the contradictions of manliness in wartime. pbk £15.99 |
| • | Chronicle of Youth – Great War Diaries 1913-1917Vera Brittain (Edited by Alan Bishop)(Phoenix Press, 2002)pbk £8.99 |
| • | Because you Died – Poetry and Prose of the First World War and AfterVera Brittain(Virago Press, London, 2010) The collection includes some items not previously published. pbk £8.99 |
| • | Testament of YouthVera Brittain(Virago, London, 2007) One of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, by the woman who was one of the 20th Century’s most significant pacifist writers. pbk £6.99 |
| • | A Tommy’s Sketchbook: Writings and Drawings from the TrenchesHenry Buckle(The History Press, Stroud, 2012)The Western Front of the First World War as one man saw it.pbk £9.99 |
| • | With a machine gun to Cambrai – The tale of a young Tommy in Kitchener’s army 1914-1918George Coppard(Imperial War Museum / HMSO, 1976)pbk £3.00 |
| • | We Will Not Fight… – The Untold Story of World War One’s Conscientious ObjectorsWill Ellsworth-Jones(Aurum Press, London, 2008)pbk £9.99 |
| • | No Glory – The Real History of the First World WarNeil Faulkner(Stop the War Coalition, London, 2013)A useful radical take on the political background to the First World War – but with little more than a mention of the peace organisations opposing the war, let alone the conscientious objectors who actively resisted it. pmphlt £4.00 |
| • | Refusing to Kill – Conscientious Objectors and Human Rights in the First World WarOliver Haslam(Peace Pledge Union, 2006)The best overview of conscientious objection in Britain in the First World War which is currently in print. pbk £15.00 |
| • | Tig’s Boys – Letters to Sir, from the Trenches(Ed) David Hilliam(The History Press, Stroud, 2011)A collection of letters to their fomer headmaster from a group of boys from a school in Bournemouth, telling of their experiences in the First World War. pbk £12.99 |
| • | To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided BritainAdam Hochschild(Pan Macmillain, London, 2012)An in-depth narrative telling of the many people in Britain – not only pacifists – opposing the First World War. “Written like a novel; I couldn’t put it down.” pbk £9.99 |
| • | The World is my CountryEmily Johns & Gabriel CarlyleThe often overlooked history of some of the groups who opposed the First World War. pbk £6.00 |
| • | The Ministry of Reconciliation – Christian Pacifism: Its Grounds and Implications(Ed) Hugh Martin(Headley Brothers, London, 1916)A very rare copy of the original edition of what was a highly topical classic of its era.£25.00 |
| • | War Poems and othersWilfred Owen (edited, and with an introduction by, Dominic Hibberd)(Chatto & Windus, London, 1973)A rare copy of this well-contexted and well-annotated edition of Owen’s poetry – including his well-known classic anti-war texts.hbk £22.50 |
| • | Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War(Ed) IM Parsons(Book Club Associates, London, 1978)An anthology of works by the better-known, and some less well-known, of the First World War poets.hbk £3.75 |
| • | Comrades in Conscience – The story of an English community’s opposition to the Great WarCyril Pearce(Francis Boutle Publishers, 2001)On his return from France, Private Lynch recorded his experiences on the Western Front in 20 school exercise books. His story is published here for the first time, the manuscript having been rediscovered after his death in 1980.pbk £15.00 |
| • | Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World WarAnne Powell(The History Press, Stroud, 2013)Based on extracts from first-hand accounts, the book covers the experiences of British female medical personnel all over Europe during the First World War.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Strange Meetnigs – The Lives of the Poets of the Great WarHarry Ricketts(Pimlico, London, 2012)A human account of all the well-known WW1 poets, dealing with their varying personalities and their intellectural backgrounds. pbk £7.50 |
| • | The Abolition of War: The “Peace Movement” in Britain, 1914-1919Keith Robbins(University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1976)An interesting historical study of how arguments within and between the very mixed peace organisations pre-dating the First World War led to the founding of new, more fully pacifist, movements. hbk £7.50 |
| • | Eunice FleetLily Tobias(Honno Classics, 2004)A novel about the treatment of conscientious objectors in the First World War, by an author two of whose brothers were COs. This classic has been reprinted after being out of print for more than half a century.pbk £8.99 |
| • | Selected Poetry of the First World War(Wordsworth Poetry Library, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1995)A cheap and cheerful introduction to the field, which manages to cram in almost all the ones you’ve heard of – and some more.pbk £3.99 |
SECOND WORLD WAR
| • | The March to DeathJohn Alday(Freedom Press, London, 1995)Anti-war drawings by John Alday first published in 1943. pbk £3.00 |
| • | Binding the Wounds of War: A young relief worker’s letters home 1943-47Clifford Barnard(Pronoun Press, London, 2010)Clifford Barnard was a conscientious objector who joined the Friends Ambulance Unit; the experiences revealed in his letters iinclude being part of the team which relieved the Sandbostel concentration camp near the north German coast. pbk £10.95 |
| • | Letters and Papers from PrisonDietrich Bonhoeffer(Fontana Books, London, 1960)The writings of the nonviolent opponent of Hitler, in the two years prior to his execution.pbk £2.50 |
| • | One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World WarVera Brittain(Continuum, 2005)This book reprints, for the first time, Vera Brittain’s 1942 Humilitation with Honour, and her 1944 denunciation of the Allies’ policy of saturation bombing, Seed of Chaos.pbk £7.99 (currently reduced from £9.99) |
| • | Healing the Wounds – Quaker Relief Work During World War Two and Its AftermathAlex Bryan(Quaker Home Service, London, 1986)Shows how pacifism could be given positive expression of the kind that non-pacifists could understand and appreciate.pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | Anne Frank – The Definitive Edition(Eds) Otto H Frank and Mirjam Pressler(Penguin Books, London, 2012)This is a slightly updated edition of the standard work originally published in 1995, including the full text of the famous diaries.pbk £8.99 |
| • | Girls in Khaki: A History of the ATS in the Second World WarBarbara Green(The History Press, Stroud, 2012)The story in their own words.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Conscientious Objectors of the Second World War – Refusing to FightAnn Kramer(Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013)A well-researched look at the subject of Second World War COs in Britain – including some pre-war background – covering what they did and said, and what happend to them. A pity that the indexer has spoiled a good job by the use of not just grating, but misleading, US English.hbk £19.99 |
| • | Hitler’s Deserters: When Law Merged with TerrorLars BG Petersson(Fonthill Media, London, 2013)The story of the fate of those who refused to fight for the Third Reich – and a post-war society that turned its back on them.hbk £18.99 |
| • | War’s Forgotten Women: British Widows of the Second World WarMaureen Shaw & Helen D Millgate(The History Press, Stroud, 2011)An insight into the realities of post-war Britain, through diaries, letters, and personal interviews.pbk £9.99 |
VIETNAM (and other US interventions of the era)
| • | To Asia in Peace – The Story of a Non-Violent Action Mission to Indo China(Ed) Pat Arrowsmith(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972)pbk £2.95 |
| • | Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War IIWilliam Blum(Black Rose Books, Montreal, Canada, 1998)Newly available here, this is a classic history of US interventions.pbk £16.99 |
| • | Vietnam – the dirty warRobert Guillain(Housmans, London, 1967)A translation of articles originally appearing in the French newspaper Le Monde, this – at the time – widely-influential pamphlet is now a rarity.pmphlt £5.00 |
| • | The Pentagon Papers – abridged edition(Ed) George C Herring(McGraw-Hill, New York, USA, 1993)A fraction of the notorious government mega-dossier on the Vietnam War, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg to the New York Times in 1971.pbk £4.25 |
| • | My Lai 4 – A Report on the Massacre and its AftermathSeymour M Hersh(Vintage Books, New York, USA, 1970)Eyewitness accounts assembled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.pbk £2.25 |
| • | Peace Now! – American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam WarRhodri Jeffreys-Jones(Yale University Press, USA, 1999)The story of reactions to the Vietnam war, the US government’s response, and the effect on the conduct of the war itself.hbk £9.95 |
| • | Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical ExperienceGabriel Kolko(The New Press, new York, USA, 1994)Deals in detail with the US intervention in Vietnam, as well as with the complicated internal dynamic of the Vietnamese revolutionaries. An important aid to understanding the underlying political structures of the conflict.pbk £4.00 |
COLONIAL CONNECTIONS
| • | The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in CyprusCynthia Cockburn(Zed Books, London, 2004)Based on research amongst Cypriot women, this study documents the life of a remarkablet into the streets, calling for peace and the inclusion of women into a new Cypriot society.pbk £18.99 |
ISRAEL/PALESTINE
| • | Gaza: Stay HumanVittorio Arrigoni(Kube Publishing, Markfield, Liecestershire, 2010)An eye-witness account of the 22-day Israeli offensive against Gazans in 2008-2009, written by a member of the International Solidarity Movement.pbk £6.99 |
| • | Peaceful Resistance – Building a Palestinian University Under OccupationGaby Baramki(Pluto Press, London, 2010)Showing how it has been possible to build an important academic institution under occupation.pbk £12.99 (reduced from £17.99) |
| • | In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and PalestineGershon Baskin(Vanderbilt University Press, 2017)The author’s 38 years as a peace activist, as he moved from the USA, to an Israeli kibbutz, and then lived for two years in a Palestinian village. A record of years of attempts to improve mutual understanding. |
| • | Nuclear Ambiguity – The Vanunu AffairYoel Cohen(Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1992)Tells the story surrounding Vanunu’s kidnapping, and what happened immediately afterwards.pbk £2.50 |
| • | Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed ResistanceMarwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby(Pluto Press, London, 2015)An overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil popular resistance by Palestinians. The focus is on the contemporary resistance in the Occupied Territories, but there is a review of the thread of civil resistance throughout the Palestinian struggle.pbk £15.00 |
| • | Sawahreh – Against the Wall: The struggle of a Palestinian village, dealing with the infringements on freedom brought about by Israel’s ever-tightening occupationLarry Fata et al(World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, Geneva, Switzerland, 2005)The village of Sawahreh is in the West Bank, straddling the municipal bundary of East Jeruslaem – it is literally and figuratively up against the “separation wall”.pmphlt £1.50 |
| • | Israelis and Palestinians – Conflict and ResolutionMoshe Machover(Haymarket Books, Chicago, USA, 2012)A collection of inspiring essays written during a period of more than 40 years by an Israeli activist (and mathematician). His writing is informed by the insistence that he is “not an Israeli peace activist”, since his analysis of the situation is not one of a conflict to which it is necessary to bring peace; rather, it is a situation of colonisation. Hence, in the author’s view, peace is an outcome of liberation, not its starting point.pbk £17.99 |
| • | Peace Under Fire – Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement(Eds) Josie Sandercock, Radhika Sainath, Marissa McLaughlin, Huseein Khalili, Nicholas Blincoe, Huwaida Arraf and Ghassan Andoni(Verso, 2004)Accounts of the ISM’s support for Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israeli military occupation.pbk £4.00 |
| • | Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East(Ed) Maria J Stephan(Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009) Explores the rich but little-known history of nonviolent civilian-led struggles for rights and freedoms in many parts of the region – even before the uprisings of early 2011. pbk £19.50 (reduced from £20.99) |
| • | Jerusalem – In the Eye of the Storm(A double issue of the Palestine-Israel Journal, 2011)Looks backwards and forwards, through the eyes of insiders and outsiders, and considers the priorities of civil society.pbk £2.00 |
NORTHERN IRELAND
| • | Northern Ireland – A Problem to Every SolutionDenis Barritt(Quaker Peace & Service, London, 1982)Provides essential background for anyone wanting to understand the early days of “The Troubles”. pbk £2.00 |
| • | Northern Ireland: The Background to the Conflict(Ed) John Darby(Appletree Press, Belfast, 1983)A dispassionate study of the major social characteristics of the conflict. pbk £3.00 |
| • | The Longest War – Northern Ireland and the IRAKevin Kelley(Brandon Book Publishers, Dingle, Co Kerry, Ireland, 1982)A penetrating history of the early years of the conflict. pbk £3.00 |
| • | The Longest War – Northern Ireland and the IRAKevin Kelley(Zed Books, London, 1988)A revised and updated edition of this US writer’s useful history first publilshed in 1982. pbk £4.50 |
| • | Northern Ireland: Roots of Conflict, Routes to PeaceNorthern Ireland Working Group of the National Peace Council(National Peace Council, London, 1999)Originally designed as a teaching resource for schools, and running through the history of the conflict from the 12th century to virtually the end of the 20th, this information-packed publication could be useful reading for many people who express strong opinions about the conflict without knowing the basic facts. pbk £4.90 |
| • | The Civil War in Ireland 1922-1923Eoin Neeson(Mercier Press, Cork, Ireland, 1966)Recognised as a definitive work. pbk £2.00 |
| • | Northern Ireland – nonviolent perspectives(Peace Pledge Union, 1992)A collection of a dozen articles, providing simple but reliable information about the history and background of the conflict in Northern Ireland. One of a complementary pair of pamphlets dealing with Northern Ireland, including references and ideas for further reading.pmphlt £3.50 |
| • | Northern Ireland – looking through the violence(Peace Pledge Union, 1993)A collection of a dozen articles, covering a range of nonviolent prspectives on the Northern Ireland confict. One of a complementary pair of pamphlets dealing with Northern Ireland, including references and ideas for further reading.pmphlt £3.50 |
| • | War & Peace in Ireland – Britain and the IRA in the New World OrderMark Ryan(Pluto Press, 1994)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Peace Work in Northern Ireland(United World Trust, London, 1990)One of the first concerns of the National Peace Council’s working group on Northern Ireland, after it was set up in the late 1980s, was the need for more positive information about the situation. The United World Trust – associated charity of the NPC – funded a researcher, Lisa Harper, to produce a report of key groups doing positive work in the province, including groups from the spheres of education and religion. pmphlt £2.00 |
FALKLANDS
| • | One Man’s Falklands…Tam Dalyell(Cecil Woolf, London, 1982) A vivid, eye-witness account of the crisis from within parliament, by one of the handful of implaccable parliamentary opponents of the use of force in response to the invasion and occupation.pbk £2.00 |
| • | Thatcher: Patterns of DeceitTam Dalyell(Cecil Woolf, London, 1986) This MP, one of the few to oppose the Falklands War so tirelessly, was stopped from making a major speech in the Commons denouncing the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (over the Falklands and otherr military-related issues) by a government-organised fillibuster. This booklet includes the full text of the speech they tried to suppress.pbk £2.25 |
| • | The Sinking of the Belgrano – The act of war that finally killed off all hopes of peaceArthur Gavshon and Desmond Rice(New English Library, Dunton Green, Kent, 1984) A detailed account of the facts and calculations that led to the decision.pbk £2.25 |
| • | On the Spot: The Sinking of the “Belgrano”Diana Gould(Cecil Woolf, London, 1984) The story of, and the background to, the way this Gloucestershire woman put the Prime Minister on the spot during a live television programme during the 1983 General Election campaign. With an introduction by Tam Dalyell.pbk £3.00 |
| • | A Thorn in Their SideRobert Green with Kate Dewes(John Blake Publishing, London, 2013)The story of Hilda Murrell, an elderly anti-nuclear campaigner (and aunt of a naval Commander on a nuclear weapons submarine at the time of the Falklands War) who was murdered in mysterious circumstances in 1984.pbk £7.99 |
| • | Falklands/Malvinas – Whose Crisis?(Latin America Bureau, London, 1982) Looking behind the nationalist fervour fostered by the government and media of both Britain and Argentina, this looks at some of the issues that were obscured.pbk £2.00 |
| • | The Ponting AffairRichard Norton-Taylor(Cecil Woolf, London, 1985) The story of the acquittal of the civil servant who leaked government documents about the sinking of the Argentinian ship the General Belgranoin the Falklands War.pbk £2.45 |
| • | The Right to Know: The Inside Story of the Belgrano AffairClive Ponting(Sphere Books, London, 1985) The civil servant who was prosecuted for telling the truth about the controversial sinking of the General Belgrano tells his story.pbk £1.95 |
| • | A Message from the Falklands(Ed) Hugh Tinker(Junction Books, London, 1982) The letters from the battlezone of David Tinker, a naval lieutenant who was killed during the conflict, together with background material, compiled by his father. Though far from an anti-militarist book, it gives powerful criticisms of the origin of the Falklands conflict, and of the manner in which it was conducted.pbk £3.50 |
| • | Authors Take Sides on the Falklands(Eds) Cecil Woolf and Jean Moorcroft Wilson(Cecil Woolf, London, 1982) More than a hundred, mainly British, authors say whether they supported the government’s military response to the Argentinian annexation of the islands, and how they thought the dispute should be resolved.pbk £2.75 |
BALKANS
| • | Humanitarian Law Violations in Kosovo(Human Rights Watch, 1998)£8.95 |
| • | Lessons from Kosovo: Alternatives to War – The Peace Testimony in the Twenty-First CenturyDiana Francis(Quaker Peace & Social Witness, London, 2001)pmphlt £1.50 |
| • | Liar’s Poker – The Great Powers Yugoslavia and the Wars of the FutureMichel Collons(International Action Center, New York, 2002)pbk £16.00 |
| • | The Fall of Yugoslavia – The Third Balkan WarMisha Glenny(Penguin, London, 1996)Journalist Misha Glenny provides a lucid account of the bitternesses and intransigence which – with no little encouragement from outside powers – led to the disasters which engulfed the people of Yugoslavia.pbk £2.50 |
THE GULF & AFGHANISTAN
| • | Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War(Ed) Anthony Arnove(Pluto Press, London, 2003)Updated edition of a book originally published in 2000; 20 essays on the roots of US/UK policy, its impact, and activists’ responses.pbk £5.00 (reduced from £12.99) |
| • | The Hidden War – A True Story of War in AfghanistanArtyom Borovik(Faber and Faber, London, 1991)A Soviet soldier’s-eye view of the 1980s phase of the wars in Afghanistan.pbk £2.00 |
| • | The Gulf Between Us: The Gulf War and Beyond(Ed) Victoria Brittain(Virago, 1991)pbk £4.00 |
| • | Tony Blair – The Old New Goes to WarKen Coates(Socialist Renewal, Nottingham, 2003)A critique of the Labour Party’s support for the attack on Iraq.pmphlt £4.00 |
| • | Psychological Aspects of the Gulf WarChristopher C French(Scientists Against Nuclear Arms, London, 1991)pmphlt £1.50 |
| • | The Case against War – The Essential Legal Inquiries, Opinions and Judgements concerning War in Iraq(Eds) George Farebrother and Nicholas Kollerstrom(Legal Enquiry Steering Group, 2003)£5.00 |
| • | Inside the Red Zone – A Veteran for Peace Reports from IraqMike FernerA peace activist and journalist visits Baghdad both before and after the 2003 US-led invasion, and writes about daily life in Iraq; he also meets and profiles activists from groups such as Christian Peacemaker Teams and Voices in the Wilderness.(Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, USA, 2006)hbk £10.00 |
| • | Iraq – A journey of hope and peacePeggy Faw Gish(Herald Press, Ontario, Canada, 2004)The experiences of a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams who went to Iraq before, during and after the invasion.pbk £6.00 |
| • | Soldier Box – Why I Won’t Return to the War on TerrorJoe Glenton(Verso, London, 2013)After a deployment to Afghanistan, what he had seen left the author disillusioned; he refused a second tour and left Britain. He returned to fight charges of desertion, and continued to speak out.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Secrets and Lies – The True Story of the Iraq WarDilip Hiro(Politico’s, London, 2005)An analytical narrative, illuminating the role of the neoconservatives in the Bush administration.pbk £2.00 |
| • | The Will to Resist – Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and AfghanistanDahr Jamail(Haymarket Books, Chicago, USA, 2009)Written by an embedded journalist, this tells of soldiers who came to question their role.hbk £13.99 |
| • | Hostage in IraqNorman KemberThe story of this Christian pacifist’s months as a hostage.(Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 2007)hbk £14.95 |
| • | Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on TerrorMatt KennardThe book includes extensive interviews with extremist veterans and leaders of far-right hate groups; it links some of the miliitary’s worst crimes (apart from being a military at all, of course) with this opening up of the US military.(Verso, London, 2012)hbk £16.99 |
| • | Mission Rejected: The Soldiers Who Say No to IraqPeter LauferA blend of oral history and journalism, though dealing with specifically the US military.(John Blake Publishing, London, 2007)pbk £9.99 |
| • | Investment in Blood – The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan WarFrank Ledwidge(Yale University Press, London, 2013)A well-researched investigation with good coverage of the plight of the major victims – Afghan civiliians.hbk £18.99 |
| • | Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia – An Iraq War MemoirCamilo Mejia(Haymarket Books, Chicago, USA, 2008)The author applied for discharge as a conscientious objector, but was convicted of desertion.pbk £11.99 |
| • | Stop Bush Blair WarsAndrew Murray(Stop the War Coalition, London, 2006)pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | Five Years On – Why we are still marchingChris Nineham and Andrew Burgin(Stop the War Coalition, London, 2008)pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | Afghanistan: Why We Should Get OutChris Nineham and Jane Shallice(Stop the War Coalition, London, 2008)pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Launch Anothr War Against IraqMilan Rai (with a chapter by Noam Chomsky)(Arrow Publicatins, St Leonards-on-Sea, 2002)pbk £4.95 |
| • | Regime Unchanged – Why the war on Iraq changed nothingMilan Rai(Pluto Press, London, 2003)pbk £3.00 (publisher’s price was £10.00) |
| • | 7/7, the London Bombings, Islam & the Iraq WarMilan Rai(Pluto Press, London, 2006)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Iraq: The War, The Lies, The ConsequencesGlen Rangwala, Paul Foot, and others(Stop the War Coalition, London, 2004)pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | A War Too Far – Iraq, Iran and the New American CenturyPaul Rogers(Pluto Press, London, 2006)An analyst who has proved to be one of the few people who accurately predicted the disastrous course of US intervention in the Middle East.pbk £14.99 |
| • | War With No EndJoe Sacco, Arundhati Roy, John Berger, Haifa Zangana, Hanif Kureishi, Phyllis Bennis, Ahdaf Soueif, Tram Nguyen, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Naomi Klein(Verso, London & New York, in conjunction with the Stop the War Coalition, UK, and United for Peace and Justice, USA, 2007)An anthology, from reportage to faction to fiction.pbk £7.99 |
| • | Peace with IranJames B Thring(Ministry of Peace, London, 2012)The author briefly presents a wide range of arguments against attacking Iranians – though with the downside of seeming blind to the iniquities of the Iranian regime itself. pbk £5.00 |
| • | The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan(Ed) Nick Turse(Verso, London, 2010)A collection of writings – including historic texts about former wars in Afghanistan – covering a large range of traditional political arguments against intervention. pbk £9.99 |
| • | DowningStreetGate – The Dodgiest Dossier(Spokesman, 2005)This collecton of leaked British government papers demonstrates the government’s duplicity in relation to its involvement in the 2003 attack on Iraq.pbk £4.00 |
| • | None of Us Were Like This Before – American Soldiers and TortureJoshua ES Phillips(Verso, London, 2010)A US reporter, writing about the widespread use of torture by that country’s troops, discusses how they were “psychologically scarred by the abuse they had meted out to Iraqi prisoners”.hbk £16.99 |
| • | City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and ResistanceHaifa Zangana(Seven Stories Press, New York, USA, 2009)pbk £8.99 |
| • | Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy and the Roots of TerrorismStephen Zunes(Zed Books, London, 2003)A concise and intelligent account of US policy in the region.pbk £3.00 |
Topic 11: “Terrorism” [Classification not yet available]
Topic 12: Peace movement history
This category includes: writings about peace and anti-war campaigns (including the “history” of current campaigns); and biographies and autobiographies of significant peace campaigners. Also included here are some other historic books by major figures in the peace movement (particularly from the pacifist wing of the movement), even where they cover other issues beyond their peace-related work.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | Twenty Years at Hull-HouseJane Addams(Signet Clasics, New York, 1961)A reprint of the 50-year-old classic, with introductory matrial. hbk £3.00 |
| • | Jane Addams – A Centennial Reader(Ed) Emily Cooper Johnson(Macmillan, New York, 1960) A collection of the writings of the founder of WILPF. hbk £6.00 |
| • | Campaigns Against European Peace MovementsEsko Antola(IPB / Peace Union of Finland, 1984) pbk £2.00 |
| • | To Asia in Peace: The Story of a Non-Violent Action Mission to Indo China(Ed) Pat Arrowsmith(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972) pbk £2.95 |
| • | The Women’s Peace Union and the Outlawry of WarHarriet Hyman Alonso(Syracuse University Press, 1997)pbk £14.50 |
| • | DaybreakJoan Baez(Avon Books, New York, USA, 1970)The autobiography of her early life. pbk £1.95 |
| • | We Will Not Cease – The Autobiography of a Conscientous ObjectorArchibald Baxter(Cape Catley, Whatamongo Bay, New Zealand, 1983) pbk £2.00 |
| • | War and Peace in the Gulf – Testimonies of the Gulf Peace Team(Eds) Bela Bhatia, Jean Dreze, Kathy Kelly(Spokesman, 2001)The first-hand story of the experience of nonviolent interposition in a war zone in December 1990 and January 1991. With a foreword by Noam Chomsky. pbk £1.95 |
| • | On the Perimeter – Caroline Blackwood at Greenham CommonCaroline Blackwood(Fontana, London, 1984)Reportage from a visitor to Greenham in its early stages.pbk £3.25 |
| • | My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter PearsAldeburgh Studies in Music(Boydell Press, 2016)The complete surviving correspondence between the two pacifist musicians, giving insight into their work and their relationship.hbk £16.99 |
| • | One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World WarVera Brittain(Continuum, 2005)This book reprints, for the first time, Vera Brittain’s 1942 Humilitation with Honour, and her 1944 denunciation of the Allies’ policy of saturation bombing, Seed of Chaos.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Studies in Peace HistoryPeter Brock(William Sessions Ltd, York, 1991)A diverse and informative collection of Peter Brock’s essays, spanning the 14th to the 20th centuries – mostly looking at aspects of the pacifist, or near-pacifist, end of the movement. pbk £9.00 |
| • | Pacifism in the Twentieth CenturyPeter Brock and Nigel Young(Syracuse University Press, USA, 1999)A key survey of the history of pacifism – a standard work for students of the field. pbk £9.95 |
| • | Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph RotblatAndrew Brown(OUP, Oxford, 2012)Repelled by the idea that science had been harnessed to develop weapons of mass destruction, Joseph Rotblat spent many years promoting social responsibility within science, including by establishing the influential Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.hbk £18.99 |
| • | To Walk Without Fear – The Global Movement to Ban Landmines(Eds) Maxwell A Cameron, Robert J Lawson, and Brian W Tomlin(Oxford University Press, Toronto, Canada, 1998)A comprehensive account of the movement to ban landmines.pbk £5.75 |
| • | Peace Movements: International Protest and World Politics since 1945April Carter(Longman, Harlow, Essex, 1992) This manages to fit in a surprisingly detailed and accurate survey of almost half a century of peace campaigning, with reasonably representative coverage of most parts of the world. The author is much more perceptive about the defining differences between various sorts of peace campaigners than are many other authors. pbk £15.00 |
| • | Partners for Peace: Quaker International Service and PeacemakingStephen G Cary(American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, USA, 1993) The story of US Quakers’ international outreach. pmphlt £4.00 |
| • | Letters of a Prisoner For Conscience SakeT Corder Catchpool(The Friends Book Centre, 1972)pbk £2.50 |
| • | On Two FrontsT Corder Catchpool(Headley Brothers Publishers, 1971)A 1971 reprint of the 1918 original.pbk £4.00 |
| • | Articles of Peace – celebrating fifty years of Peace News(Eds) Gail Chester and Andrew Rigby(Prism Press, Bridport, Dorest, 1986)Taking a contemporaneous look at some of the key issues covered by PNduring its first 50 years – relating these issues to the paper’s coverage, but not primarily a history of PN.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Anti-Militarism – Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace MovementsCynthia Cockburn(Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012)Looking at the cohesiveness and coherence of peace movements, the author presents original case studies of anti-war, anti-militarist and peace campaigns, in Japan, South Korea, Spain, Uganda, and the UK.pbk £19.99 |
| • | Oppose and Propose! – Lessons from Movement for a New SocietyAndrew Cornell(AK Press, Edinburgh, 2011)MNS was a radical pacifist network active in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s, and a pioneer of methods of consensus decion-making, communal living, and nonviolent direct action. This book – full of documents, interviews and analysis – recovers a missing link in anti-authoritarian radical history.pbk £9.00 |
| • | Labouring for Peace: the Campaign Inside the Labour Party for International PeaceGrace Crookall-Greening and Rosalie Huzzard(CAM Yorkshire, Penistone, 2011)Charts the history of the peace movement within the Labour Party since the end of the Second World War.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Ireland’s Guantanamo GrannyMargaretta D’Arcy(Women’s Pirate Press, Galway, Ireland, 2015)What’s a peace-loving granny to do when she finds that her supposedly neutral state is being used by the US to aid their wars and torture? This is a first-hand account of her struggle to open a debate about the misuse of Shannon Airportpbk £10.00 |
| • | A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynoldsMartin Duberman(The New Press, New York, USA, 2011)A fascinating study of two key figures in the radical life of the USA – both of whom were influential in many fields, including civil rights, nonviolence and gay rights. On some of these issues they worked together, on others they disagreed.pbk £14.99 |
| • | The Civilian and the Military: A History of the American Antimilitarist TraditionArthur A Ekirch Jr(Ralph Myles, Colorado Springs, USA, 1972)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Disarming the Oceans – International Resistance to the Nuclear Navies(European Nuclear Disarmament, 1985)Produced with the support of the Greater London Council, in connection with the campaign by international networks of activists opposing – especially – the presence of nuclear weapons in the world’s oceans.pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | Thank You Greenham – One woman’s memories of direct actionKate Evans(Laughing Moon Press, London, 2008)A memoir of the events seen or taken part in by a “part-time activist” – not only at Greenham, but events elsewhere inspired by Greenham.pbk £7.00 |
| • | Naming the Dead – A Serious CrimeMaya Anne Evans with Milan Rai(JNV Publications, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex, 2006)The personal account of the first person convicted under the notorious SOCPA law, forbidding protest near parliament without advance authorisation – for reading out names of people killed in Iraq.pbk £6.99 |
| • | Breaking RanksMelissa Everett(New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, USA, 1989)The stories of ten US men who left comfortable military-related jobs to work for peace.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Love is the MeasureJim Forest(Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, USA, 1997)A biography of Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker.pbk £9.99 |
| • | A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories(Eds) Larry Gara & Lenna Mae Gara(Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, USA, 1999)Ten pacifists – including Dave Dellinger, Ralph DiGia, and Larry Gara himself – tell why they resisted and what happend.hbk £18.95 (reduced from £25.00) |
| • | An Autobiography: The Story of my Experiments with TruthMahatma Gandhi(Penguin Modern Classics, 2001)Although written in the 1920s, before some of the busiest and best-known periods of his life, this remains a key book for understanding Gandhi’s philosophy. Includes a new introductino by Sunil Khilnani.pbk £10.99 |
| • | In Pursuit of Alternatives to War – Peace Campaigning in the Eighties: A Chronicle from WrexhamOwen Hardwicke(Bridge Books, Wrexham, 2006)A living, recent history of grassroots campaigning.pbk £5.95 |
| • | Refusing to Kill – Conscientious Objectors and Human Rights in the First World WarOliver Haslam(Peace Pledge Union, 2006)The best overview of conscientious objection in Britain in the First World War which is currently in print. pbk £15.00 |
| • | The Nobel Peace Prize – What Nobel Really WantedFredrik S Heffermehl(Praeger, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 2010)A Norwegian lawyer and peace campaigner reveals the workings of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and shows how so many of their Peace Prize awards have been out of kilter with Nobel’s own wishes – in fact nine out of the last ten awards have been illegal.hbk £19.95 |
| • | Swimming Against the Tide: The Peace Pledge Union Story 1934-2009William Hetherington(Peace Pledge Union, London, 2009) A short survey of the PPU’s first 75 years – leaves you wanting more. pmphlt £6.50 |
| • | Protests & Visions: Peace Politics in 20th Century BritainJames Hinton(Hutchinson Radius, London, 1989) Some of this historical analysis is perceptive; but this is a controverisal history of the British peace movement – controverisal, for example, in the way that it treats the nuclear disarmemnt movement, once CND had been established, as the core issue, and defines other organisations in terms of their relationshiop with that. pbk £4.50 |
| • | CND at 60Kate Hudson(Public Reading Rooms, London, 2018)This book, by CND General Secretary Kate Hudson, is the inside story of six decades of a long-running (and still all-too-necessary) peace organisaton. A timely publication, coinciding with the recent UN call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons.pbk £12.95 |
| • | CND: Now More Than Ever – The Story of a Peace MovementKate Hudson(Vision Paperbacks, 2005)pbk £10.99 |
| • | Indomitable Friend: The Life of Corder Catchpool 1883-1952William R Hughes(George Allen & Unwin, 1956)The story of a remarkable pacifist and war resister who undertook grassroots work to relieve the suffering caused by war, as well as to oppose war, all over Europe.hbk £8.50 |
| • | Resistance and Reconstruction(Institute for Total Revolution, Vedchhi, India, 1988)A record of the proceedings of the War Resisters’ International Triennial Conference, held in Vedchhi December 1985 – January 1986. pbk £5.00 |
| • | Peace Now! – American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam WarRhodri Jeffreys-Jones(Yale University Press, USA, 1999)The story of reactions to the Vietnam war, the US government’s response, and the effect on the conduct of the war itself. hbk £9.95 |
| • | Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social thought(Eds) Willis Jenkins and Jennifer M McBride(Fortress Press, Minneapolis, USA, 2010)A re-assessment of the activism and theology of two of the 20th century’s best-known Christian martyrs – Dietrich Bonheoffer and Martin Luther King.pbk £16.99 |
| • | The World is my CountryEmily Johns & Gabriel CarlyleThe often overlooked history of some of the groups who opposed the First World War. pbk £6.00 |
| • | Beatrice: The Cadbury Heiress Who Gave Away Her FortuneFiona Joseph(Foxwell Press, Birmingham, 2012)The story of a journey from respectable Quaker girl to bold anti-capitalist and peace activist.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Knowing the Mystery of Life Within – Selected Writings of Isaac Penington in their Historical and Theological ContextSelected and introduced by R Melvin Keiser & Rosemary Moore(Quaker Books, 2005)Isaac Penington was one of the founders of the Quakers in the 17th century; the selection includes some of his prison writings.pbk £13.50 (published at £18.00) |
| • | In Harm’s Way – A History of Christian Peacemaker TeamsKathleen Kern(The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 2009)Christian Peacemaker Teams came to prominence in Britain in 2005, following the kidnap of four people in Iraq including the British CPT supporter Norman Kember. But the CPT network had been active for 10 years prior to then, and this detailed history deals with its origins, its actions, and its ideology.pbk £12.99 (published at £25.00) |
| • | Servas 1949-1989: an Experiment in Peace BuildingPat Knowles(self-published, 1989)pbk £9.50 |
| • | Fenner – his work lives onNeil Kinnock, Michael Foot, & many others(Liberation / World Disarmament Campaign / CRS London Region Political Committee, 1988)A collection of the tributes to Fenner Brockway published after the memorial meeting following his death in 1988.pmphlt £4.00 |
| • | Conscientious Objectors of the Second World War – Refusing to FightAnn Kramer(Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013)A well-researched look at the subject of Second World War COs in Britain – including some pre-war background – covering what they did and said, and what happend to them. A pity that the indexer has spoiled a good job by the use of not just grating, but misleading, US English.hbk £19.99 |
| • | The Road to Greenham Common – Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820Jill Liddington(Syracuse University Press, New York, USA, 1991)This book disentangles the different and often complex feminist analyses of militarism over a 170-year period.pbk £6.00 |
| • | Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History(Ed) Staughton Lynd(The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, USA, 1966)A wide-ranging look at well over 200 years of US radicalism.pbk £4.50 |
| • | Some of the People all the TimeAlastair Mackie(Book Guild Publishing, Brighton, Sussex, 2006)An autobiography by a one-time Air Commodore and H-bomber pilot, turned health educator and nuclear disarmament campaigner (becoming Vice-Chair of CND).hbk £17.99 |
| • | Unarmed Bodyguards – International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human RightsLiam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren(Kumarian Press, 1997)An inspirational story, focusing especially on the role of Peace Brigades International in Guatemala.pbk £20.00 |
| • | Confessions and ImpressionsEthel Mannin(Jarrolds, London, 1935)A memoir of the 1920s by this famous radical, libertarian campaigner.hbk £2.50 |
| • | Nuclear Peace: The Story of The Trident ThreeJohn Mayer(Vision, London, 2002)The story of a successful direct action against Britain’s nuclear weapons system, written by the lawyer who defended the activists in court.hbk £16.99 |
| • | The Raytheon 9 – Resisting War Crimes is Not a CrimeEamonn McCann(The Derry Anti-War Coalition, 2008)The story of the occupation of the Raytheon arms factory in Northern Ireland, which provides bombs for the Israeli air force. pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | The CND Story(Eds) John Minnion and Philip Bolsover(Allison & Busby, 1983)The first 25 years of CND in the words of many of the people involved.pbk £2.00 |
| • | In the Lion’s Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and his Homeland in the Second World WarFariborz Mokhtari(The History Press, Stroud, 2011)A junior diplomat in France risks all under the German occupation in the Second World War to save as many threatened Jewish families as he can.hbk £14.99 |
| • | Siegfried Sassoon – The Making of a War PoetJean Moorcroft Wilson(Duckbacks, London, 2002)An accalimed biography of the anti-war poet. pbk £3.50 |
| • | The Life and Work of Stuart MorrisSybil Morrison(Peace Pledge Union, 1969)A Christian pacifist, and ordained Anglican, Stuart Morris would certainly have become a Bishop if he hadn’t renounced his Holy Orders in 1939, having been made to resign from his post as Chaplain of the Fleet Air Arm because of his preaching of pacifist sermons. He served as both Chairperson and General Secretary of the PPU. pmphlt £10.00 |
| • | Stop the WarAndrew Murray and Lindsey German(Bookmarks Publications, London, 2003)A celebration of the early days of the Stop the War Coalition. pbk £6.99 |
| • | Opening Doors to Peace – A memorial to Myrtle Solomon(Myrtle Solomon Memorial Fund & War Resisters’ International, 1991)A memorial to a leading figure in the PPU and the WRI, dealing primarily with her work as chair of WRI from 1975 to 1986.pbk £2.00 |
| • | Five Years On: Why we are still marchingChris Nineham and Andrew Burgin(Stop the War Coalition, London, 2008) With preface by Tony Benn.pmphlt £1.00 |
| • | The Ponting AffairRichard Norton-Taylor(Cecil Woolf, London, 1985) The story of the acquittal of the civil servant who leaked government documents about the sinking of the Argentinian ship the General Belgranoin the Falklands War.pbk £2.00 |
| • | From Protest to Resistance – The Direct Action Movement Against Nuclear WeaponsPeace News – various authors(Mushroom Bookshop, Nottingham, 1981) An all-too-brief, but powerful, history of nonviolent activism at the cutting edge of the anti-nuclear weapons movement in the 1950s ansd 1960s – published just as this movement was to see a new upsurge. The fine range of contributors includes Dennis Gould, Pat Arrowsmith, Adrian Mitchell and Nicolas Walter, and includes excerpts from a historic court case, iconic pictures, and a timeline.pbk £6.50 |
| • | Walking to Greenham – How the Peace-camp began and the Cold War endedAnn Pettitt(Honno, Dinas Powys, 2006)What the initiators of the Greenham camp went on to do next.pbk £8.99 |
| • | They Love it But Leave It – American DesertersDevi Prasad(War Resisters’ International, London, 1971)hbk £12.00 |
| • | War is a Crime Against HumanityDevi Prasad(War Resisters’ International, London, 2005)The long-awaited story of the first 50-plus years of the WRI. pbk £18.00 (currently reduced from £28.00) |
| • | The Blake Escape: How we Freed George Blake – and WhyMichael Randle & Pat Pottle(Harrap Books, London, 1989)Housmans has recently tracked down some second-hand copies of this out-of-print classic, which tells the story of how and why two imprisoned anti-nuclear direct actionists, who met Soviet spy Goerge Blame while in prison, organised his escape from prison and from the country in 1966. Many years later they faced criminal charges for this, and – though admitting the facts – justified their action and persuaded a jury to acquit them. hbk £7.50 (originally £12.95) |
| • | Private View of a Public Man: The Life of Leyton RichardsEdith Ryley Richards(George Allen and Unwin, 1951)A major figure in Christian pacifism in the first half of the Twentieth Century, active in several countries. hbk £10.00 |
| • | The Abolition of War: The “Peace Movement” in Britain, 1914-1919Keith Robbins(University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1976)An interesting historical study of how arguments within and between the very mixed peace organisations pre-dating the First World War led to the founding of new, more fully pacifist, movements. hbk £7.50 |
| • | Peace Under Fire – Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement(Eds) Josie Sandercock, Radhika Sainath, Marissa McLaughlin, Huseein Khalili, Nicholas Blincoe, Huwaida Arraf and Ghassan Andoni(Verso, 2004)Accounts of the ISM’s support for Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israeli military occupation. pbk £5.00 |
| • | The Frontier Gandhi: Abdul Ghaffar Khan – Muslim champion of nonviolenceShireen Shah(Movement for the Abolition of War, London, with the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008) Abdul Ghaffar Khan (who lived from 1890 to 1988) was nicknamed “the Frontier Gandhi” because he spent much of his life working for social transformation through nonviolent means – justifying it in terms of his Islamic beliefs – with a nonviolent “army” challenging British rule in the North-West Frontier region of British India (now Pakistan). pmphlt £3.00 |
| • | No Bunkers Here – A Successful Nonviolent Action in a Welsh CommunityTony Simpson(Mid Glamorgan CND, Merthyr Tydfil /Peace News, Nottingham, 1982)The achievements, hardships and paradoxes of the first Welsh peace camp – and the first successful action to close down a “civil defence” establishment. pmphlt £10.00 |
| • | The March that Shook Blair: An oral history of 15 February 2003Ian Sinclair(Peace News, London, 2013)A book telling the story of an unforgettable occasion in political history – warts and all. pbk £10.00 |
| • | Voices Against War: A Century of ProtestLyn Smith(Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2010)Based on nearly 200 personal testimonies from the Imperial War Museum’s collections, this book tells the stories of people involved in anti-war protests from the First World War to the present day. pbk £7.99 |
| • | On Active Service for Peace – Ex-Services CND(Ed) Rita Stanleigh, with Michael Floyd and Morris Brodie(Ex-Services CND, London, 1995)How people with military experience came to identify with nuclear disarmament. pbk £2.25 |
| • | Peace Work in Northern Ireland(United World Trust, London, 1990) One of the first concerns of the National Peace Council’s working group on Northern Ireland, after it was set up in the late 1980s, was the need for more positive information about the situation. The United World Trust – associated charity of the NPC – funded a researcher, Lisa Harper, to produce a report of key groups doing positive work in the province, including groups from the spheres of education and religion.pmphlt £2.00 |
| • | Message of a Wise KabouterRoel Van Duyn(Duckworth, 1972)pbk £3.50 |
| • | Carnets de PrisonJean Van Lierde(Vie Ouvriere, Brussels, Belgium, 1994) Prison writings of a key figures in the war resistance movement in Belgium as well as internatonally. In French. Jean Van Lierde died in December 2006. pbk £5.00 |
| • | George ClemenceauDavid Robin Watson(Haus Publishing, London, 2008)Part of the Makers of the Modern World series, dealing with people involved in the peace conferences of 1919-1923, this biography of the French leader gives a different view from the common one that he imposed too harsh a treaty on the defeated Germans after the First World War. hbk £12.99 |
| • | About Face – Military Resisters Turn Against Wars(Eds) Buff Whitman-Bradley, Sarah Lazare, Cynthia Whitman-Bradley(PM Press, Oakland, California, 2011)Looks at the way US military volunteers question what they see as illegal orders, and become refusers. pbk £14.99 |
| • | Spectator PapersNorman Whitney (Ed, Adele Rickett)(American Friends Service Committee, 1971)Writings by a US pacifist, 1943-1967. pbk £5.00 |
| • | Siegfried Sassoon – The Making of a War Poet: A Biography, 1886-1918Jean Moorcroft Wilson(Duckworth, London, 2004)A thorough biography of the anti-war poet. pbk £3.25 |
| • | In Solitary Witness – The Life and Death of Franz JagerstatterGordon Zahn(Templegate Publishers, Springfield, USA, 1986)The Christian who resisted conscription into Hitler’s forces, and was executed.pbk £10.99 |
| • | Trident on Trial: The case for people’s disarmamentAngie Zelter(Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2001)The story of the early years of Trident Ploughshares, told by those involved.pbk £9.99 |
| • | Faslane 365 – A Year of Anti-Nuclear Blockades(Ed) Angie Zeiter(Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2008)An account of a year’s actions at the home base of Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Snowball: The Story of a Non-violent Civil-Disobedience Campaign in Britain(Eds) Angie Zelter and Arya BhushanBhardwaj(Gandhi-in-Action, New Delhi, India, 1991)The story of the long-running and imaginative Snowball campaign against Britain’s nuclear weapons.pbk £10.50 |
Topic 13: Miscellaneous topics
This section includes (but is not limited to) material on: citizen diplomacy and “people to people” campaigns; nonviolent accompaniment and unarmed cross-border intervention; world citizenship; both war tax resistance and peace tax campaigning; the environmental aspects of warfare; analysis of media coverage of war and wars; pro-war propaganda; opposition to military-related academic research; and the history of violence.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | To Asia in Peace: The Story of a Non-Violent Action Mission to Indo China(Ed) Pat Arrowsmith(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972)pbk £2.95 |
| • | Arming America – The Origins of a National Gun CultureMichael Bellesiles(Soft Skull Press, New York, USA, 2003)Challenges traditional explanations of the origin of US gun culture. The gun lobby didn’t like this book… pbk £6.75 |
| • | Greenwash – Environment and Conflict(Ed) Olivia Bennett(Panos Publications, London, 1991)Looks at the environmental legacy of war in the Sahel. pbk £4.00 |
| • | Stop Using Child Soldiers!Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers(International Save the Children Alliance, London, 1998)An overview of the worldwide siutation and the issues. pbk £3.75 |
| • | My Country is the World – The Adventures of a World CitizenGarry Davis(Macdonald & Co, 1962)hbk £4.50 |
| • | Human and Environmental Security – An Agenda for Change(Eds) Felix Dodds and Tim Pippard(Earthscan, London, 2005)A series of well-informed contributions dealing with security more broadly than the common political definition in miliitary terms – however, many of the articles are still from a governmental-style perspective. pbk £4.50 |
| • | Global Citizen Action(Eds) Michael Edwards and John Gaventa(Earthscan Publications, London, 2001)Contemporary thinking about nonstate participation in the international system. pbk £4.95 |
| • | The Claims of Conscience – Quakers and Conscientious Objection to Taxation for Military PurposesCecil Evans(Quaker Home Service, London, 1996)Looks at this issue since the 17th century, with a detailed look at British Quakers’ engagement with the issue since 1964. pmphlt £1.50 |
| • | The New Diplomats – Citizens as Ambassadors for PeaceJim Garrison and John-Francis Phipps with Pyare Shivpuri(Green Books, 1989),pbk £5.95 |
| • | The Glorious Art of Peace – From the Iliad to IraqJohn Gittings(OUP, Oxford, 2012)This study demolishes the myth that peace is dull and that war is “in our genes”; it opens an alternative window on history. The author urges us to pay more attention to, for example, Erasmus on the Art of Peace rather than Machiavelli on the “Art of War”.hbk £18.99 |
| • | Succeeding Revolutions – 18th Century America and the 21st Century WorldIan Hackett(Campaign for Earth Federation, London, 2006)pbk £3.49 |
| • | The Final Frontier – America, Science, and TerrorDominick Jenkins(Verso, London, 2002)The author illuminates the lethal interface between science and warmaking.hbk £15.95 |
| • | The Tax Dilemma: Praying for Peace, Paying for WarDonald D Kaufman(Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, USA, 1978)pbk £6.50 |
| • | Servas 1949-1989: an Experiment in Peace BuildingPat Knowles(self-published, 1989)pbk £9.50 |
| • | Soldiers In The LaboratoryChris Langley(Scientists for Global Responsibility, Folkestone, 2005)This report documents the power and infuence of the military in science, engineering and technology in the UK in recent years. pbk £12.50 |
| • | More Soldiers In The Laboratory: The militarisation of science and technology – an updateChris Langley(Scientists for Global Responsibility, Folkestone, 2007)This short report provides an update to Soldiers In The Laboratory, published by SGR in 2005, and also highlights problems in obtaining this sort of information, despite the Freedom of Information Act. £2.50 |
| • | Behind Closed Doors – Military influence, commercial pressures, and the compromised universityChris Langley, Stuart Parkinson and Philip Webber(Scientists for Global Responsibility, Folkestone, 2008)This report builds on the disclosures of, and recommendations in, Soldiers In The Laboratory and More Soldiers In The Laboratory. It focuses on the impact of military sector influence within the research and teaching environment of universities in the UK. £3.50 |
| • | Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human RightsLiam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren(Kumarian Press, 1997)An inspirational story, focusing especially on the role of Peace Brigades International in Guatemala. pbk £20.00 |
| • | Dams and Other Disasters – a century of the army corps of engineers in civil worksArthur E Morgan(Porter Sargent, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1971)The book documents a hundred years of incompetence and political manipulation by a section of the US army, laying bare its carefully nurtured public image as a body working in the public interest. hbk £5.00 |
| • | Torture and State Violence in the United States – A Short Documentary History(Ed) Robert M Pallitto(John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA, 2011)A book which shows that state-sanctioned violence and cruel punishments have a long history in the USA. Tells horrifying stories spanning a period of over 300 years.pbk £13.00 |
| • | How to Look Good in a War – Justifying and Challenging State ViolenceBrian RappertThe book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. It deals with the way pro-war narratives are constructed, and considers how ignorance of the operation of war is produced.(Pluto Press, London, 2012)pbk £17.99 |
| • | Arms or AidHugh Reay(Housmans, for War on Want, London, 1967)pmphlt £1.50 |
| • | Citizens’ Diplomacy – A Handbook on Anglo-Soviet InitiativesClaire Ryle and Jim Garrison(Merlin Press, 1986)pbk £2.50 |
| • | Study War No More – Military involvement in UK universitiesTim Street with Martha Beale(Fellowship of Reconciliation and Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2007)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Explosive Remnants of War – Mitigating the Environmental Effects(Ed) Arthur H Westing(Taylor & Francis, for SIPRI, 1985)Produced as part of a project between SIPRI and the United NationsEnvironment Programme on “Military activities and the human environment”. hbk £4.95 |
| • | The Fruits of War – How Military Conflict Acccelerates TechnologyMichael White(Pocket Books, London, 2007)This popular science writer argues that humankind’s propensity for warfare has a silver lining – being responsible for virtually every technological development for centuries. His history of such correlations is fascinating; but his need to confirm his thesis means he sometimes ends up moving from correlation to causation a little too glibly. But nevertheless thought-provoking. pbk £8.99 |
| • | The Cold War and the Income Tax – A ProtestEdmund Wilson(WH Allen, London, 1964)An early example of a call to resist paying for warfare. hbk £2.75 |
Topic 14: General peace issues
Books in this section deal with broad (or sometimes just varied) aspects of war and/or peace, and include very general “let’s have peace” material, assorted “ideas for peace”, and anti-war arguments based on particular political perspectives. (Some of them are much more interesting than this might suggest, but are just hard to classify elsewhere!) Multi-themed anthologies of writings about peace issues can also be found here, as can non-topic-specific books of peace cartoons.
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | Courageously Crossing Thresholds29 Examples of International Peace Work(The Threshold Foundation, Bremen, Germany, 2003)The stories of the winners and other prize nominees of the foundation’s Bremen Peace Award.pbk £3.00 |
| • | Freedom From WarDonald Bennett(Pilot Press, London, 1945)An assertion that war can and must be prevented in future, by a legendary Second World War pilot, based on his own experience of the horror and futility of war.hbk £5.00 |
| • | World Without WarJD Bernal(Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961)Looking at the links between the threat of the use of modern science for warfare and the hope of the use of science for human welfare.hbk £3.50 |
| • | Articles of Peace – celebrating fifty years of Peace News(Eds) Gail Chester and Andrew Rigby(Prism Press, Bridport, Dorest, 1986)Taking a contemporaneous look at some of the key issues covered by PNduring its first 50 years – relating these issues to the paper’s coverage, but not primarily a history of PN. pbk £7.50 |
| • | The Quest for Peace(Eds) Andrew C Cordier and Wilder Foote(Columbia University Press, New York, USA, 1965)The Dag Hammarskjold memorial lecture series. hbk £6.50 |
| • | The Dynamics of War and RevolutionLawrence Dennis(Institute for Historical Review, Torrance, California, USA, 1980)pbk £3.50 |
| • | The Peace Book – 108 Simple Ways to Create a More Peaceful WorldLouise Diamond(Conari Press, Berkeley, California, USA, 2001)pbk £3.00 |
| • | A Search for Alternatives to War and Violence(Ed) Ted Dunn(James Clarke and Co, London, 1963)A selection of writings, inspired by a major peace movement conference (organised by a consortium of peace organisations) held in Colchester in 1961. Two dozen authors – some of them being leading thinkers in their field – look at different understandings of peace, and at methods ranging from international political institutions to direct action.pbk £8.00 |
| • | Disarmament: The Lessons of the ThirtiesMalcolm Elliott(Leicester Peace Council, 1987)This little pamphlet tackles the traditional arguments still used today to criticise the stance of pacifists in the ’30s and during the Second World War – although it isn’t written from a specifically pacifist perspective. It points out that the moves towards war in the 1930s were the result of the fialure of disarmament, not because of too much disarmament.pmphlt £1.50 |
| • | Men Against WarNicholas Gillett(Victor Gollancz, 1965)Portraits of eight great peacemakers.hbk £12.00 |
| • | The Anti-War Quote Book(Ed) Eric Groves(Quirk Books, Philadelphia, USA, 2008)Pages of instant, and inspiring, wit and wisdom.pbk £8.99 |
| • | War & the Noble Savage – A Critical Enquiry into Recent Accounts of Violence amongst Uncivilised PeoplesGyrus(Dreamflesh Press, London, 2009)pbk £5.00 |
| • | Peace: The Plain Man’s Guide to War-PreventionHugh Hanning(Cecil Woolf, London, 1988)Looks at how to overcome the obstacles to a more peaceful world.hbk £4.00 |
| • | Peace is PossibleFredrick S Heffermehl(International Peace Bureau, 1999)Special short edition for the 1999 International Peace Conference in The Hague – 30 short, popular essays for peace.pbk £3.00 |
| • | The Path to World Peace and The Citizenship ContractJohan Alexander Helenius(self-published, 2007)An amusing – though certainly not intended as such – example of the “I’ve got this wonderful, not to mention highly-prescribed, set of ideas of what is needed for a happy and peaceful world, and if only everyone else would do exactly as I say…” approach to humanity’s problems.pmphlt £1.50 |
| • | Plotting Peace: The Owl’s Reply to Hawks and DovesRonald HigginsBrassey’s UK, 1990)hbk £6.50 |
| • | The Causes of WarsMichael Howard(Unwin Paperbacks, 1984)pbk £3.00 |
| • | Science, Liberty and PeaceAldous Huxley(Chatto & Windus, 1947)Calls for decentralisation of power as a key part of using science and technology for peace and the benefit of society.hbk £4.00 |
| • | Experiments with Peace: Celebrating Peace on Johan Galtung’s 80th Birthday(Eds) Jorgen Johansen & John Y Jones(Pambazuka Press, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010)This festschrift honours one of the most prolific and respected peace researchers, and includes articles from dozens of writers, touching on almost every conceivable area of peace-related thinking. It’s a wonderfully useful collection of writings for anyone wanting to dip into a range of areas of peace research, even apart from being a worthy celebration of the work of Johan Galtung.pbk £19.95 |
| • | The Concept of PeaceJohn MacQuarrie(SCM Press, 1973)hbk £5.00 |
| • | You Have No Country! – Workers’ Struggle Against WarMary E Marcy(Charles H Kerr Publishing Company, Chicago, USA, 1984)A collection of articles by a First World War libertarian socialist activist, summarising a revolutionary Marxist view of war.pbk £2.95 |
| • | We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America(Eds) Elizabeth Betita Martinez, Matt Meyer, and Mandy Carter(PM Press, Oakland, California, USA, 2012)This inspiring 600-page collection of writings – both classic and more recent – looks at the struggles still needing to happen against the state of affairs in the USA. And because of the influence of that empire on us all, these strugglers are of relevance to us all.pbk £21.99 |
| • | The Economic and Moral Consequences of British RearmamentWilliam H Marwick(Friends’ Peace Committee, London, 1951)This is the “Peace News Pamphlets” edition of the FPC original.pmphlt £3.50 |
| • | Arms No More – Will humanity survive the coming century from global arms race and nuclear terror?Vijay Mehta(Arms Reduction Coalition, London, 2004)A look at global efforts to stop the spread of arms.pbk £3.00 |
| • | Reflections on Global Conflicts & Peace Building – The Peace Party AlternativeChris Okereafor(Image Expressions Publications, Lagos, Nigeria, and The Peace Party, Guildford, Surrey; 2009)Includes a sympathetic analysis of the politics of the Peace Party of Britain.pbk £2.50 |
| • | War: The Human Cost(Paper Tiger Comix, London, 2007)A comc anthology, including a CD.pbk £11.99 |
| • | The Knowledgeable State – Diplomacy, War and Technology since 1830Maurice Pearton(Burnett Books, 1982)hbk £6.95 |
| • | Creating Peaceful PeopleDerrick A Pike(Derrick A Pike, Glastonbury, 1989)Writings by an anarcho-pacifist. pmphlt £2.95 |
| • | The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace – Money, Power and Mayhem in the Twenty-First CenturyDan Plesch(Politico’s Publishing, 2004)An expert, and humourous, look at how to get peace in a generation. Though not an analysis which focuses much on the direct action aspects of campaigningpbk £8.99 |
| • | Get Your War OnDavid Rees(Soft Skull Press, New York, USA, 2002)A collection anti-war cartoon strips.pbk £3.00 |
| • | Militarism and the World Military Order – A Study Guide for ChurchesErnie Regehr(Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland, 1980)Although intended for a specific audience, most of this book is an excellent starting point for anyone wanting a simple overview of the technicalities of militarism and disarmament, of the economic issues, and of the roots of militarism. Each section includes helpful and relevant questions for discussion.pbk £4.75 |
| • | Inventing Collateral Damage – Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire(Eds) Stephen J Rockel and Rick Halpern(Between the Lines, Toronto, Canada, 2009)A collection of varied studies of civilian casualties in the history of warfare.pbk £18.95 |
| • | War With No EndJoe Sacco, Arundhati Roy, John Berger, Haifa Zangana, Hanif Kureishi, Phyllis Bennis, Ahdaf Soueif, Tram Nguyen, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Naomi Klein(Verso, London & New York, in conjunction with the Stop the War Coalition, UK, and United for Peace and Justice, USA, 2007)An anthology, from reportage to faction to fiction.pbk £7.99 |
| • | The Liberal Defence of MurderRichard Seymour(Verso, London, 2012)A powerful critique of “humanitarian intervention” and its supporters; looks at the history of liberal justifications of conquest. An updated version of an earlier 2008 book.pbk £12.99 |
| • | Peace on Earth: The Way Ahead(Ed) Walter SteinSheed & Ward, 1966)pbk £4.00 |
| • | On the Prevention of WarJohn Strachey(Macmillan, 1962) hbk £6.50 |
| • | War is a LieDavid Swanson(Biteback Publishing, London, 2011)The author deconstructs the main reasons put forward in favour of war. A fine set of arguments, and some great polemic. Though – speaking primarily in a US context – he fails to get fully beyond the idea that the state itself can be democratised so as to make war history. The biggest gap in the book is its lack of connection with the many organisations full of people who already know that wars are obsolete and avoidable; so readers inspired by his ideas are given insufficient realistic idea as to what to do once they’re persuaded.pbk £12.99 |
| • | The Heavy DancersEP Thompson(Merlin Press, 1985)pbk £3.50 |
| • | The Heavy Dancers: Writings on War, Past and FutureEP Thompson(Pantheon Books, New York, 1985pbk £3.00 |
| • | The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace(Ed) Helen Ware(New Internationalist, 2006)pbk £6.99 |
| • | Unintended War – Beyond DeterrenceArthur Waskow(American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, USA, 1962)pmphlt £4.00 |
| • | Armies and PoliticsJack Woddis(Lawrence & Wshart, London, 1997)hbk £1.50 |
| • | Peace is the Way – A Guide to Pacifist Views and Actions(Eds) Cyril Wright and Tony Augarde(Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1990)Produced for the Peace Pledge Union, it includes a series of essays on the relationship of pacifism to many other issues, as well as chapters on pacifist actions, pacifist alternatives, pacifist organisations, and so on. A comprehensive introduction.pbk £6.95 |
Topic 15: Relevant fiction and poetry
This is a small selection of fiction and poetry which is closely related to the issues dealt with in this part of the shop – it includes a few items written by notable pacifists and other peace campaigners. [See also the shop’s main fiction and poetry sections.]
Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand.
| • | Many are CalledPat Arrowsmith(Onlywomen Press, 1998)A humorous novel from this notorious pacifist activist and writerpbk £3.00 |
| • | On the BrinkPat Arrowsmith(Campaign for Nuclear Disamament, London, 1981)This collection of poetry – with a foreword by Adrian Mitchell – includes a number of Pat’s poems which seem to be about matters with little to do with nuclear weapons or other campaigning issues – yet even these ones are frequently not what they seem, having a sting in the tale which is so typical of Pat.pmphlt £2.25 |
| • | Born 1925 – A Novel of YouthVera Brittain(Macmillan, 1948)hbk £3.50 |
| • | Because you Died – Poetry and Prose of the First World War and AfterVera Brittain (edited by Mark Bostridge)(Virago Press, London, 2010)The collection includes some items not previously publishedpbk £8.99 |
| • | Still Dews – An Anthology of Peace(Ed) Fiona Castle(Hodder & Stoughton, 2002)A collection of poems, songs and prose, dealing with personal peace, social peace and world peace.pbk £4.99 |
| • | A New Waste Land – Timeship Earth at NilleniumMichael Horovitz(New Departures, London, 2007)Deconstructing the forces of darkness, is this his most political work to date?pbk £15.00 |
| • | There’s a Tree in the Meadow – A Book of DestinyTina Hyder(Advocate House, Sarasota, Florida, USA, 2007)A simultaneously slight and cloying “love story” riddled with religiosity, written by someone “no longer affiliated with any political party” claiming to include “the simple secret for world peace”.pbk £5.00 |
| • | Mama LeoneMiljenko Jergovic (trans David Williams)(Archipelago Books, New York, USA, 2012)This talented storyteller writes of a family odyssey against the background of the Balkan wars.pbk £11.99 |
| • | The Buzzards of Zinn – A Story of War and PeaceGeorge Miller(The Medlar Press, Ellesmere, Shropshire, 2010)A story which uses fantasy to expose the horrors of contemporary reality.pbk £9.95 |
| • | War Poems and othersWilfred Owen (edited, and with an introduction by, Dominic Hibberd)(Chatto & Windus, London, 1973)A rare copy of this well-contexted and well-annotated edition of Owen’s poetry – including his well-known classic anti-war texts.hbk £22.50 |
| • | Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War(Ed) IM Parsons(Book Club Associates, London, 1978)An anthology of works by the better-known, and some less well-known, of the First World War poets.hbk £3.75 |
| • | Strange Meetings – The Poets of the Great WarHarry Ricketts(Chatto & Windus, London, 2010)The story of the sometimes intertwined lives of some of the leading poets of that era – stories of their lives that may well be unknown even to those familiar with some of their poetry. hbk £12.99 |
| • | RecollectionsJohn Spencer(Abecasis Verlag, Okayama, Japan, 2006)Poems by a Second World War concientious objector, some relating to his time working on farms during the war.pbk £4.95 |
| • | Eunice FleetLily Tobias(Honno Classics, 2004) A novel about the treatment of conscientious objectors in the First World War, by an author two of whose brothers were COs. This classic has been reprinted after being out of print for more than half a century.pbk £5.99 |
| • | War Games: A Collection of Short StoriesGerry Wells(Menin House Publishers, Eastbourne, Sussex, 2010)Written by a World War Two veteran.pbk £9.95 |
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Selected Poetry of the First World War(Wordsworth Poetry Library, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1995)A cheap and cheerful introduction to the field, which manages to cram in almost all the ones you’ve heard of – and some more.pbk £3.99
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