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Below is one of the lists from the Peace section of the Booklists page of the Housmans website. It's the SPECIFIC WARS list. You can go right back to the website's main Booklists page (which links directly to and from all the other main pages) here. You can go back up to the start of the Peace section here. And you can jump directly between the Peace lists, without going back up to the head of the Peace section, using the links which follow... Key/recommended texts New and recent publications Topic 1: Pacifism and nonviolence Topic 2: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc Topic 3: Peace education Topic 4: Peace research Topic 5: Women and peace Topic 6: Lifestyles and religious Topic 7: Disarmament, arms race Topic 8: Nuclear and other WMDs Topic 9: Arms trade Topic 10: Specific wars Topic 11: "Terrorism" [Classification not yet available] Topic 12: Peace movement history Topic 13: Miscellaneous topics Topic 14: General peace issues Topic 15: Relevant fiction and poetry Topic 16: Journals [Classification not yet available] Topic 17: Reference [Classification not yet available] 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 (though not material about campaigns against them - see Topic 12) are usually included with the shop's stock dealing with the relevant area of the world, rather than being found amongst the peace section. Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand - see the Peace Booklists introductory page. Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, (Ed) Anthony Arnove (Pluto Press, London, 2003), pbk £5.00 (reduced from £12.99) Updated edition of a book originally published in 2000; 20 essays on the roots of US/UK policy, its impact, and activists' responses. To Asia in Peace: The Story of a Non-Violent Action Mission to Indo China, (Ed) Pat Arrowsmith (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972), pbk £2.95 A War of Individuals: Bloomsbury attitudes to the Great War, Jonathan Atkin (Manchester University Press, 2002) pbk £16.00 War and Peace in the Gulf - Testimonies of the Gulf Peace Team, (Eds) Bela Bhatia, Jean Dreze, Kathy Kelly, Foreword by Noam Chomsky (Spokesman, 2001), pbk £5.00 The first-hand story of the experience of nonviolent interposition in a war zone in December 1990 and January 1991. Letters from a Lost Generation - First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends, (Eds) Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge (Abacus, 2004), pbk £9.99 Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War, (Ed) Anne Boston (Virago, 1989), hbk £7.00 Chronicle of Youth - Great War Diaries 1913-1917, Vera Brittain (Edited by Alan Bishop) (Phoenix Press, 2002), pbk £8.99 England's Hour, Vera Brittain (Continuum, 2005), £9.99 A new edition of this classic, impassioned reportage by one of the most acclaimed pacifist writers of the Second World War, first published in 1941. One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War, Vera Brittain (Continuum, 2005), £7.99 (currently reduced from £9.99) 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. The Gulf Between Us: The Gulf War and Beyond, (Ed) Victoria Brittain (Virago, 1991), pbk £4.00 Healing the Wounds - Quaker Relief Work During World War Two and Its Aftermath, Alex Bryan (Quaker Home Service, London, 1986), pmphlt £3.00 Shows how pacifism could be given positive expression of the kind that non-pacifists could understand and appreciate. Tony Blair - The Old New Goes to War, Ken Coates (Socialist Renewal, Nottingham, 2003), pmphlt £4.00 A critique of the Labour Party's support for the attack on Iraq. Liar's Poker - The Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Wars of the Future, Michel Collon (International Action Center, New York, 2002), pbk £16.00 With a machine gun to Cambrai - The tale of a young Tommy in Kitchener's army 1914-1918, George Coppard (Imperial War Museum / HMSO, 1976), pbk £3.00 We Will Not Fight... - The Untold Story of the First World War's Conscientious Objectors, Will Ellsworth-Jones (Aurum Press, London, 2008), hbk £18.99 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 Meetings in No Man's Land - Christmas 1914 and Fraternization in the Great War, Marc Ferro, Malcolm Brown, Remy Cazals, Olaf Mueller, trans Helen McPhail (Constable, 2007), hbk £18.99 Starting with the famous incident in 1914, the authors examine the evidence that fraternisation in the First World War was far more common than previously accepted. Translated from a French book published in 2005. Psychological Aspects of the Gulf War, Christopher C French (Scientists Against Nuclear Arms, London, 1991), pmphlt £1.50 No Time for Fear - True Accounts of RAF Airmen Taken Prisoner, 1939-1945, Victor F Gammon (Arms and Armour, 1998), pbk £5.00 Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime?, AC Grayling (Bloomsbury, 2006), hbk £20.00 Men Under Stress, Roy R Grinker, John P Spiegel (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1963), pbk £4.00 A reprint of a classic Second World War analysis of mentally wounded combat flyers. Vietnam - the dirty war, Robert Guillain (Housmans, London, 1967), pmphlt £5.00 A translation of articles originally appearing in the French newspaper Le Monde, this - at the time - widely-influential pamphlet is now a rarity. The First World War 1914-1918, Gerd Hardach (Allen Lane, 1977), hbk £4.00 Looks especially at the economic aspects. The Pentagon Papers - abridged edition, (Ed) George C Herring (McGraw-Hill, New York, USA, 1993), pbk £5.50 A fraction of the notorious government mega-dossier on the Vietnam War, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg to the New York Times in 1971. Humanitarian Law Violations in Kosovo (Human Rights Watch, 1998), £8.95 Peace Now! - American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (Yale University Press, USA, 1999), hbk £16.95 Hostage in Iraq, Norman Kember (Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 2007), hbk £14.95 The story of this Christian pacifist's months as a hostage. The Days of the Good Soldiers: Communists in the Armed Forces WWII, Richard Kisch (Journeyman Press, London, 1985), pbk £6.50 Mission Rejected: The Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq, Peter Laufer (John Blake Publishing, London, 2007), pbk £9.99 A blend of oral history and journalism, though dealing with specifically the US military. Somme Mud - The war experiences of an infantryman in France, 1916-1919, EPF Lynch, Edited by Will Davies (Doubleday, London, 2008), hbk £17.99 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. A Child of the War, George MacBeth (Jonathan Cape, 1987), hbk £5.00 Crimes Without Punishment - Humanitarian Action in Former Yugoslavia, Michele Mercier (Pluto Press, 1994), pbk £5.00 The Ponting Affair, Richard Norton-Taylor (Cecil Woolf, London, 1985), pbk £2.00 The story of the acquittal of the civil servant who leaked government documents about the sinking of the Argentinian ship the General Belgrano in the Falklands War. Northern Ireland - nonviolent perspectives (Peace Pledge Union, 1992), pmphlt £3.50 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. Northern Ireland - looking through the violence (Peace Pledge Union, 1993), pmphlt £3.50 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. Comrades in Conscience - The story of an English community's opposition to the Great War, Cyril Pearce (Francis Boutle Publishers, 2001), pbk £15.00 War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War On Iraq, Milan Rai (Verso, 2002), pbk £5.00 (publisher's price was £10.00) Iraq: The War, The Lies, The Consequences, Glen Rangwala, Paul Foot, and others (Stop the War Coalition, London, 2004), pmphlt £1.00 War & Peace in Ireland - Britain and the IRA in the New World Order, Mark Ryan (Pluto Press, 1994), pbk £10.99 War With No End, Joe 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), pbk £7.99 An anthology, from reportage to faction to fiction. 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), pbk £5.00 (reduced from £15.00) Accounts of the ISM's support for Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israeli military occupation. All the Brave Promises - Memories of Aircraft Woman 2nd Class 2146391, Mary Lee Settle (Pandora Press, 1984), pbk £5.00 The Iran-Iraq War, Behrouz Souresrafil (CC Press, 1989), pbk £6.00 DowningStreetGate - The Dodgiest Dossier (Spokesman, 2005), £4.00This collecton of leaked British government papers demonstrates the government's duplicity in relation to its involvement in the 2003 attack on Iraq. The Carnage Continues ... and now for Trident (Spokesman 92, 2006), £5.00 Eunice Fleet, Lily Tobias (Honno Classics, 2004), pbk £8.99 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. Peace Work in Northern Ireland (United World Trust, London, 1990), pmphlt £2.00 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. Checkpoints and Chances - eyewitness accounts from an observer in Israel-Palestine, Katharine von Schubert (Quaker Books, 2005), pbk £9.00 Reports of living with people under military occupation. War Crime or Just War? - The Iraq War 2003-2005: The Case Against Blair, Nicholas Wood (South Hill Press, London, 2005), pbk £8.99