Addicted To War

Why The U.s. Can't Kick Militarism - An Illustrated Expose

BY JOEL ANDREAS
Addicted to War takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read Addicted to War to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays-and who dies. Over 120,000 copies of the previous edition are in print. This new edition is substantially reworked and fully updated through the War in Iraq. "A witty and devastating portrait of U.S. military policy."-Howard Zinn

AK Press 2004 69 PP. Paper

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All Quiet On The Western Front

BY ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.

Bantam 1987 347 PP. Paper

$7.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

All Things Must Fight To Live (995)

Stories Of War And Deliverance In Congo

BY BRIAN MEALER
Not for the faint of heart. Bryan Mealer travelled extensively in the Congo after the bitter wars that spilled in from Rwanda. He searches for hope and does find some in ordinary courageous people, but he also found madness and senseless slaughter and greed. Its one mans attempt to find what is the truth and the cause as literally millions are overlooked and die in fighting massacres and neglect in the middle of Africa. These are stories that rarely play upon our attention, that should. SECONDHAND COPY, as new -even bought from us, but doesnt look as if it was read.

Bloomsbury 2008 296 PP. Cloth

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Battlefield Without Borders

Iraq Poems

BY DAVID SMITH-FERRI
In July, 1999, David visited Iraq for the first time, as part of an eight-member fact-finding delegation organized by the Chicago-based group, Voices in the Wilderness. David wrote two thirds of these poems while in Iraq after encounters with Iraqi people, in a wide range of settings - from hospitals to homes to bomb sites. The book sold out in four months, and in November, 2007, Haley's published a second edition of the book, with twelve new poems and a new foreword by Kathy Kelly.

Haleys 2007 122 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Beirut Blues

BY HANAN AL-SHAYKH
Asmahan writes letters - to make sense of her life and to preserve her fond memories of Beirut as it existed before civil strife destroyed it forever. Evocative, sensual, funny, and poignant, the letters - which are unlikely to ever reach their destinations - conjure up, with passion and disarming honesty, a woman's life and loves in a ravaged city, as well as her sense of being a hostage in her own country.

Anchor 1996 382 PP. Paper

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Birdsong

A Novel Of Love And War

BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS
This novel is at once a magnificently erotic love story and a savagely powerful evocation of the carnage of World War I. A young Englishman, devastated by his tragic love affair with a married Frenchwoman, joins the army in 1916 and finds himself behind German lines, transformed into both death's agent and its dispassionate witness.

Vintage 1993 482 PP. Paper

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The Body In Pain

The Making And Unmaking Of The World

BY ELAINE SCARRY
A challenging book; by examining how inexpressible one person's pain is to another, Scarry looks at how humankind is a ble to torture one another and go to war. She looks deeply into the language and the philosophy of violence. This book offers a profound analysis that is thought provoking and should be widely read. She goes on to see the potential for creativity arising from these same depths.

Oxford Uniersity Press 1987 385 PP. Paper

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Elephant In The Room

ZERUBAVEL
A Great book, rather let down by the cover that looks like a kids chapter book. Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of silence and denial - Drawing on examples from newspapers and comedy shows to novels, children's stories, and film, the book travels back and forth across different levels of social life, and from everyday moments to large-scale historical events. At its core, The Elephant in the Room helps us understand why we ignore truths that are known to all of us.

Oxford U iversity Press 2006 149 PP. Cloth

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Ending The Iraq War

A Primer

BY PHYLLIS BENNIS
Phyllis Bennis analyses the causes and course of the war She looks at Iraq its opportunities and divisions, and it's terrible problems outlining various course of action that can help end the war. Small fomat, but big on useful information, and with an informed and clear voice.

Olive Branch Press 2009 219 PP. Paper

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Ending The Us War In Afghanistan

A Primer

BY DAVID WILDMAN AND PHYLLIS BENNIS
The authors examine the war in Afghanistan and question its reputation as a "good" or justified war to Americans who were against the war in Iraq. This primer provides a helpful timeline of Afghanistan's history, and provides the reader with an alternative and forthright view of the reasons for conflict through a question-and-answer format. Among the questions posed and briefly answered are "What does the war look like on the ground?" and "What role have oil and natural gas played in the war?" A helpful and up-to-date introduction for the reader curious about this issue.

Olive Branch Press-Interlink Publishing Group, Inc Paper

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Eye In The Door

BY PAT BARKER
Pat Barker returns to the World War I era with The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize for 1993. It is the spring of 1918. On the battlefields of France, a mammoth German offensive threatens the English army with defeat. In England itself, a beleaguered government and panic-stricken, vengeful public seek scapegoats. Two groups are targeted for persecution and prosecution: pacifists and homosexuals. Many are jailed, others lead dangerous double lives; and "the eye in the door" becomes a symbol of the paranoia that threatens to destroy the very fabric of British society.

,Plume 1995 288 PP. Paper

$16.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

First They Killed My Father

A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers

BY LOUNG UNG
One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harper 2006 238 PP. Paper

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Ghost Road

BY PAT BARKER
The Ghost Road is the shattering conclusion of Pat barker's brilliant World War I trilogy. Set in the final months of the war, The Ghost Road focuses on Dr. William Rovers, the compassionate psychiatrist of Regeneration and Lt. Billy Prior, last seen as a domestic intelligence agent in The Eye in the Door. "A triumph of imagination".--Publisher's Weekly.

Plume 1996 288 PP. Paper

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Going Back (11156)

Ex-marine Returns To Vietnam

BY W. D. EHRHART
Secondhand Copy. Paperback in very good condition. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. A journal of the combat vet, writer and teacher's Vietnam government sponsored return to Vietnam in 1985. For Ehrhart it is a return to peace and an opportunity for personal apology in that period before normalization of relations between the US and Vietnam. Ehrhart is a keen observer.

McFarland 1987 188 PP. Paper

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Hiroshima No Pika & Hellfire A Journey From Hiroshima

The Art Of Toshi And Iri Maruki

BY JOHN JUNKERMAN & NORIAKI TSUCHIMOTO
Hirohima no Pika is an animated film based on the famous book about a young girl and her family who live through the bombing. It is narrated by Susan Sarandon. Hellfire: a journey from Hiroshima is about the making of the Hiroshima murals, Virtually unknown in the west, they are as profound an antiwar work as Pablo Picasso's famous mural, Guernica. The monumental panels, which are actually painted upon traditional-style folding screens, took 30 years to complete, and provide a chilling look at the terror of nuclear war. With interviews and film of the artists at work. a message of hope from an unimaginable horror.

FRF 2005 83 MINS Dvd

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Immoral Wars And Illegal Laws

History, Religion, Militarism And Peacemaking In The Human Rights Struggle For Palestinian Independence.

BY WILLIAM DURLAND
This is an account of personal experiences and observations on the ground in Israel and Palestine, and an analysis of the stubborn positions contributing to this seemingly insoluble conflict. Readers will find complete lists of all relevant international laws and violations of those laws, a review of all partition and resolution plans and proposals, and up-to-date, heart-rending descriptions of grass-roots, peacemaking efforts.Tie-ins to post 9-11 erosions in U.S. human rights ideals provide chilling and strongly relevant food for thought. Unabashedly controversial, this book is a passionate advocacy for peace with justice in the Middle East backed up by solid scholarship.

CreateSpace 2011 360 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Imperial Life In The Emerald City

Inside Iraq's Green Zone

BY RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN
The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies.

Vintage 2007 295 PP. Paper

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On Killing

The Psychological Cost Of Learning To Kill In War And Society

BY DAVE GROSSMAN
The good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the eighteenth century through Vietnam - is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. The provocative news is that modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have learned how to overcome this reluctance.

Back Bay Books 1996 400 PP. Paper

$15.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Photographer

Into War-torn Afghanistan With Doctors Without Borders

BY DIDIER LEFèEVRE, EMMANUEL GUIBERT, FREDERIC LEMERCIER
A unique and literally stunning book, mixing contemporary black and white photos, with a comic strip. The book looks at the work of Doctors without Borders in Afghanistan in 1986, the period when the Russians tried to control the country. The relentless mountain scenery, the difficulty of movement or communication and ever present corruption and danger are portrayed only too well. A reminder of how complex the situation was and still is over there. 14 inches by 12 inches.

First Second 2009 267 PP. Paper

$29.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Picasso's War

The Destruction Of Guernica And The Masterpiece That Changed The World

BY RUSSELL MARTIN
In Picasso's War, Russell Martin weaves politics, history, art, and science into a stirring narrative of the monumental canvas that was to become the most important artwork of the 20th century. Pablo Picasso, enraged by Hitler's bombing of Guernica in Northern Spain on April 26, 1937, responded to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on Guernica. In Picasso's War, Martin follows Guernica, the renowned masterwork, across decades and continents, crafting an engrossing story of a its impassioned creation and the struggle to find hope in the face of unspeakable acts of terror.

Plume 2002 274 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

The Places In Between

BY RORY STEWART
In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers as he makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, and allegiance.

Harcourt 2004 299 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Planting The Good Seed

Letters From A Quaker Relief Workerr

BY ROBERT MCCOY
A young Quaker farmer spends three years in many parts of Europe doing relief work after WWII with the AFSC. Told in very detailed and fascinating letters home about life in an extraordinary period of world history, McCoy documents this time. He met his future wife in Germany and her short poem, "What is Love," appropriately ends the book. Many illustrations.

Wilmington College Peace Research Center 2007 330 PP. Paper

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Quaker Service In Modern War (5197)

Spain And France 1939-1940

BY HOWARD KERSHNER
SECONDHAND BOOK, Hardback in very good condition with dust cover. The author describes the work of the International Commission for the Assistance of Child Refugees an agency formed by English Quakers to work in Spain and France consolidating the work of AFSC and other groups working to relieve suffering on both sides of the conflict P,AFSC

1950 195 PP. Cloth

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Quiet Helpers

Quaker Service In Postwar Germany

BY ACHIM VON BORRIES
Friends translated this account of Quaker relief work in Germany, written originally for the Stille Helfer exhibit. It is a useful and readable analysis of how and why Quakers were involved in building bridges with the vanquished. The account includes descriptions of the efforts of Friends to prevent the sufferings of Jews and descriptions of contemporary service efforts. copublication of QPS in Britain and AFSC in America.

Britain Yearly Meetin/AFSC 2000 62 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Sexual Violence And Armed Conflict

BY JANE L. LEATHERMAN
An in-depth but broadly-focused book exploring the tightly intertwined atrocities of conflict and sexual violence.

Polity Press 2011 244 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Shattered

Stories Of Children And War

JENNIFER ARMSTRONG
A series of short fictional stories focusing on war and conflit and its effects on the most vulnerable civilians - children. Authors include M.E. Kerr, Suzanne Fisher Staples, and others.

Knopf 2002 166 PP. Cloth

$5.95 (in stock)

Soldier Of The Great War

HELPRIN
Alessandro Giullani, the young son of a prosperous Roman Lawyer lives in a world of adventure and dreams. Then the 1914 War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, still tall and proud, finds himself unexpectedly on the road with an illiterate young factory worker. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers distant, the old man tells the story of his life. How he became a soldier, a hero, a prisoner, a deserter, and finally a wanderer in the hell that claimed Europe.

Harcourt 2005 860 PP. Paper

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The Things They Carried

A Work Of Fiction

BY TIM O'BRIEN
Depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy) and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and bud dies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other.

Broadway. 1998 272 PP. Paper

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To End All Wars

A Story Of Loyalty And Rebellion, 1914-1918

BY ADAM HOCHSCHILD
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. Adam Hochschild brings this war to life, focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics - including the conscientious objectors one British tabloid called "human toadstools" - alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist and a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the "war to end all wars." Can we ever avoid repeating history?

HMH 2011 448 PP. Cloth

$28.00 (in stock)

Understanding The Palestinian - Israeli Conflict

A Primer

BY PHYLLIS BENNIS
With straightforward language, Bennis, writes about Israel and Israelis, Palestine and Palestinians, the US and the Middle East, Zionism and anti-Semitism; about complex issues ranging from the Oslo peace process to the election of Hamas. Sections include: The Crisis; The Other Players: The Role of the US, the UN, the Arab States, and Europe; Recent History: Rising Violence; Looking Backward (1900-1991); The Future.

Olive Branch Press 2007 196 PP. Paper

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