Peace Protestors Hill Symon
Peace Protestors Hill Symon From Afghanistan to the Falklands, from Northern Ireland to Iraq, British troops are nearly always in action somewhere in the world. Sometimes, they can draw on public…
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Peace Protestors Hill Symon
From Afghanistan to the Falklands, from Northern Ireland to Iraq, British troops are nearly always in action somewhere in the world. Sometimes, they can draw on public sympathy. But whenever there is war, there will be people who resist it.
Peace movements large and small have been a constant part of UK history, not least in the last 40 years. At other times, they stand alone against the crowd. This book tells their stories.Drawing on interviews, fresh research and newly released government documents, the book sheds light on some of the most surprising and overlooked events of recent decades.
Peace activists in the 1980s did not know that Margaret Thatcher's government feared that US troops on UK bases would fire on unarmed demonstrators. When the ceasefire came about in Northern Ireland, few noticed the peace work that Quakers had been doing behind the scenes for years. While