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Book Reviews 

New reviews, 2020

The Big Book of Wisdom
Larry Culliford, Hero Press

Postnational Memory, Peace and War:   Making Pasts Beyond Borders
Nigel Young, Routledge

Reviews (in alphabetic order of Author)

Adrian: Scotland celebrates Adrian Mitchell
Edited by Chrys Salt and John Hudson, published by Markings

A Million Bullets: the real story of the British Army in Afghanistan
James Fergusson, Corgi Books

Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements
Cynthia Cockburn, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Cruel Britannia: a secret history of torture
Ian Cobain, 2012, Portobello Books

Deserters
Lars G. Petersson, Danish Resistance Museum Publishing, 2005
Hitlers Fahnenflüchtige, chipmunkapublishing, 2012

Failing Intelligence: The true story of how we were fooled into going to war in Iraq
Brian Jones, Biteback, 2010

Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: the Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat
Andrew Brown, Oxford University Press, 2011

Lions, Donkeys & Dinosaurs – Waste and Blundering in the Military
Lewis Page 2007 Arrow Books

Newspeak in the 21st Century
David Edwards and David Cromwell, Pluto Press, 2009

Remember War Make Peace: services, reflections, prayers and readings for Remembrance Sunday
(with free CD)
David Adam, Nick Fawcett,.Ray Simpson, Christine Titmus. Kevin Mayhew 2010

Poetry of the Taliban
Editors: Alex Strick van Linschoten & Felix Kuehn, Hurst & Company, 2012

Surviving Climate Change: the struggle to avert global catastrophe
Editors David Cromwell and Mark Levene, Pluto Press, 2007

The Buzzards of Zinn: a story of war and peace
George Miller, Medlar Press, 2010

The Deaths of Others
John Tirman, Oxford University Press, 2011

The Eleventh Day: The Ultimate Account of 9/11
Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swann, Doubleday, 2011

The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq
John Gittings, Oxford University Press, 2011

The Green Zone: the environmental costs of militarism
Barry Sanders, AK Press

The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel really wanted
Fredrik Heffermehl, Praeger (USA), 2010

The Secret Life of War – journeys through modern conflict
Peter Beaumont, Vintage Books, 2010

The Strange Death of David Kelly
Norman Baker, Methuen, 2007

The Uses and Abuses of History
Margaret Macmillan, Profile Books Ltd (2009)

Voices Against War
Lyn Smith, Mainstream Publishing (in association with the Imperial War Museum)

What Price Nuclear Blackmail?
Hugh Beach, Abolition 2000 UK, 2011

When the World Outlawed War
David Swanson 2011

Wired for War: the robotics revolution and conflict in the twenty-first century
P. W. Singer Penguin (2009)






 

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