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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist
£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349015019 | ISBN 10: 0349015015
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award, the NCR Prize for non-fiction and the Fawcett Prize. "This thoughtful portrait of a dauntless feminist and pacifist combines the readability of a novel with the authenticity of fact."(Lyndall Gordon, ... more
View book details£22.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784743949 | ISBN 10: 1784743941
A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitments. Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the h ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781777010188 | ISBN 10: 1777010187
His only weapon was his cellphone. When revolution and war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE. A conscientious objector by faith and temperament, he refused to return to S ... more
View book details£30.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838092825 | ISBN 10: 183809282x
Guided by the data in the pioneering Pearce Register of British Conscientious Objectors, Communities of Resistance is an exploration of the histories of more than forty war resister communities across Britain from rural villages and industrial towns ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781789040166 | ISBN 10: 1789040167
Tim Gee tells the story of why he became a pacifist and what it means to him. Tim Gee reflects on the lives of peacemakers past and present to provide responses to questions like “Don’t we have to hit back if we're hurt?”, “Don’t we ne ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780851248424 | ISBN 10: 085124842x
"Jo Vellacotts excellent book is a model of careful scholarship, clear and lively writing, and the choice of a subject that matters deeply. One hundred years on, its high time we honored those who had the courage to speak out against the madness of ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781680926 | ISBN 10: 1781680922
A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan. When the War on Terror began, Joe Glenton signed up to serve his nation. He passed through basic training and deployed to Afghanistan in 2006. What he saw overseas ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780552775403 | ISBN 10: 0552775401
September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together. ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781903427330 | ISBN 10: 1903427339
Henry Richard was the secretary of the Peace Society from 1848 to 1886, an unconditional pacifist when the British Empire was at the height of its aggressive powers. He opposed British military adventures in the Crimea, Egypt, Afghanistan, South Afri ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780719082320 | ISBN 10: 0719082323
This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circ ... more
View book details£5.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780953242368 | ISBN 10: 0953242366
Labouring for Peace charts the history of the peace movement within the Labour Party from the end of the Second World War to the present day. It draws on archival material, especially newsletters and pamphlets, as well as public speeches and personal ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752458571 | ISBN 10: 0752458574
During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved and beaten, theirs was a battle of conscience. In the First World War, seventy-three conscientious objectors died as a result o ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847678416 | ISBN 10: 1847678416
Oliver Postgate's death in December 2008 was greeted with great sadness. For over forty years his name was synonymous with the best in children's television Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, The Pogles, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings. Oliver wrote ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844084142 | ISBN 10: 1844084140
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel once more I do not live in vain,Although bereft of You...So wrote twenty-two-year-old Vera Brittain, mouring the loss of her fiance Roland Leighton on t ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781931859530 | ISBN 10: 1931859531
Staff Sergeant Camilo Meja became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector. After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known Iraq veteran to r ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780860680352 | ISBN 10: 0860680355
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. Testament o ... more
View book details£31.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781842774519 | ISBN 10: 1842774514
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, called up to take part in controversial campaigns like the 1982 invasion of Lebanon or policing duties in the Palestinian territories today, have refused orders. Many of these 'refuseniks' have faced prison sentences rat ... more
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