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

$16.00 (in stock)

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

$14.95 (in stock)

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 conscientiousobjectors one British tabloid called "human toadstools" - alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for theiropposition to the war were Britain's leading investigativejournalist 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?

Mariner 2011 448 PP. Paper

$15.95 (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

$10.00 (in stock)

Voces De Jovenes Excombatientes Colombia

BY YVONNE KEAIRNS
In spanish only.A joint report on child soldiers in Columbia. Also readable online at www.quno.org/geneva/pdf/SpanishVoicesComplete.pdf.

AFSC 2004 109 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning

BY CHRIS HEDGES
As a War correspondent, Hedges has covered conflicts in the Middle East, the Balkans, Central America, Africa. He uses his first-hand knowledge of the horrors of war, as well as knowledge of literature from Homer to Herr , and his master of divinity from Harvard University, to reflect on the nature of human violence and myth-making. Having suffered through his own "addiction" to war, he concludes that even if we cannot eradicate fighting among nations, love remains a virtue worth pursuing.

Anchor Books 2003 211 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Western Way Of War

"this gem from my undergraduate studies lays out how warfare is untenable and morally reprehensible" The Greeks of the classical age invented not only democracy, but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle, a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men of all ages. In this bold, original study, Victor Davis Hanson shows how they believed this led to an unequivocal, instant resolution to dispute. Linking this new style of fighting to the rise of constitutional government, Hanson raises new issues and questions old assumptions about the history of war.

Univ of California 2009 271 PP. Paper

$25.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Why We're Losing The War On Terror

BY PAUL ROGERS
The war on terror seems a lost cause. Well over 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, many tens of thousands have been detained without trial, and torture, and prisoner abuse have sullied the reputation of the US in the world. Paul Rogers, the Quaker professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University looks at this failure and its causes. He argues that the war may have a huge, if unexpected, bonus. Its very failure will make it possible to completely rethink western attitudes to global security, moving towards a sustainable policy that will be much more effective in addressing the real threats to global security - the widening socio-economic divide and climate change.

Polity 2007 180 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Will War Ever End

A Soldier's Vision Of Peace For The 21st Century

BY CAPTAIN PAUL CHAPPELL
Written as a "manifesto for waging peace" by an active duty captain in the U.S. Army, Will War Ever End? Challenges readers to think about peace, war and violence in radically new ways. Captain Chappell demonstrates that human beings are naturally peaceful and that world peace can become more than a cliché. He lays out a practical framework for transforming the way we think about war and violence, enabling us to begin the real work we must do in order to achieve true peace for mankind. Its message is one of hope, offering practical solutions to help us build a better world

Ashoka Books 2009 84 PP. Cloth

$14.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Windows And Mirrors

Relections On The War In Afghanistan - A Catalog

BY AFSC AND THE GODWIN TERNBACH MUSEUM
Windows and Mirrors is a traveling exhibit of artists and children's depictions of the war in Afghanistan. These "windows" on a war torn country are also "mirrors" reflecting our identity as a nation at war. Active peacemaking involves making known what is hidden and that is what the artists in this exhibition have tried to do. The panels are shown in color and there is an explanation of the image and biography of the Artist who created it - around 38 panels in all.

AFS and the Godwin-Ternbach Museum 2010 100 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)