List of books with anti-war themes
This is a bibliography of works with an anti-war theme.
An anti-war book is a book that is perceived as having an anti-war theme. Below are lists of some fiction and non-fiction titles for adults, teens and children with anti-war themes.
Adult fiction
Adult non-fiction
- An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era - Charles DeBenedetti, 1990
- Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic autobiography
- Choosing Peace: A Handbook on War, Peace, and Your Conscience - Robert A. Seeley, 1994
- The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War - 1984 book by Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan and Donald Kennedy.
- Collateral Damage : America's War Against Iraqi Civilians - Chris Hedges, 2008
- The Education of a Christian Prince (1516) and The Complaint of Peace (1517) by Desiderius Erasmus. [1]
- Fate of the Earth - 1982 book by Jonathan Schell.
- The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now - 1998 book by Jonathan Schell.
- Hiroshima - John Hersey account of the bombings.
- The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War - Frederick Downs, 1978
- The Kingdom of God is Within You - Leo Tolstoy, 1894
- The Long Road to Greenham : Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820 - Jill Liddington, 1989.
- Nonviolence : the history of a dangerous idea - Mark Kurlansky, 2006.
- No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran - Murray Polner, 1971
- Nouveau Cynée (1623) by Émeric Crucé.
- Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe - 2004 book by Harvard scholar Graham Allison.
- Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero - 1998 book edited by Joseph Rotblat.
- Pacifism in the Twentieth Century - Peter Brock and Nigel Young, 1999.
- Peace Is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present - S. Daniel Abraham, Bill Clinton
- Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated - James Mann, editor, 2004
- The Politics of Jesus - John Howard Yoder, 1972
- A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
- Scapegoats of the Empire - Lt. George Witton memoir, 1907
- Science, Liberty and Peace - Aldous Huxley, 1946.
- The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger - 2007 book by Jonathan Schell.
- War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges, 2003
- War Is a Lie David Swanson 2010
- War Is a Racket - former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler speech, 1933 and pamphlet, 1935
- We Will Not Cease - Archibald Baxter (with e-Text) memoir, 1939
- White Flash, Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb - L. Vance-Watkins and A. Mariko, eds., 1995
- Why Didn't You Have To Go To Vietnam, Daddy? - (Steve Wilken) Starving Writers Publishing 2009
- Writings Against Power and Death - Alex Comfort, 1994.
Teen fiction
Teen non-fiction
- Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers - Milton Meltzer, 2002
- Lines in the Sand: New Writing on War and Peace - Hoffman and Lassister, eds. essays, stories, poems, 2003
- Operation Warhawks: How Young People Become Warriors - Terrence Webster-Doyle, 1993
- Some Reasons for War: How Families, Myths and Warfare Are Connected - Sue Mansfield, 1988
Children's fiction
- The Butter Battle Book - Dr. Seuss, 1984
- Sunrise over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers, 2008
- War Game: Village Green to No-Man's-Land - Michael Foreman, 1994
- War Horse - Michael Morpurgo, 1982
- When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War - Greenfield, Gilchrist poems and illus., 2006
Children's non-fiction
- A Little Peace - Barbara Kerley, 2007
- Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World - Jane Breskin Zalben, 2004
- Peace One Day - Jeremy Gilley, 2005
Notes
- ^ Ben Lowe, Imagining peace: a history of early English pacifist ideas, 1340-1560.Penn State Press, 1997 ISBN 0271016892 (p. 163-64).
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