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Fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, sent to live with his uncle in Camp Hale, Colorado, following the death of his parents in 1944, finds himself struggling between his upbringing as a pacifist, and life on a military base in the middle of World War II.

A collection of twenty-three essays that provides varying perspectives on issues related to pacifism, discussing the relationship between Christianity and pacifism, other religious views of pacifism, secular pacifist traditions, and links between pacifism and political and social issues.

In 1941 in Kansas, as America enters World War II, fourteen-year-old William finds himself alienated from his friend Jim, a Mennonite who does not believe in fighting for any reason, as they argue about the war.

Presents over twenty chronologically arranged pacifist writings by such figures as Buddha, Henry David Thoreau, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Explores the history, ideals, and activism of the American peace movement.

A history of peace movements in the United States, including discussions of the principles behind nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.

Sponsored by Children as the Peacemakers Foundation. The story of an American girl and a Russian girl traveling across the United States.

Traces the history of World War I, focusing on how and why it became one of the bloodiest wars in human history and exploring how anti-war protestors were treated both in America and abroad.

Presents nineteenth-century Russian author Leo Tolstoy's thoughts on how to prevent conflicts within and among nations through a recognition of love as the guiding law of life.

Beginning with Huxley's book, the text relates subsequent developments which are entered alphabetically and are cross -referenced.

Records the sentiments of children in the present war zones of the world.

Describes women's role in history, focusing on women's effort in maintaining world peace.

In 1943, nineteen-year-old Jim Yoder serves as a waist gunner aboard a B-24 in the United States Army Air Corps, but through a strange chain of events, is trapped behind enemy lines in Hitler's Europe, alone, on foot, and on the run, and finds himself returning to his family's staunchly pacifist Mennonite roots.

Presents interviews with some of the men who entered the Civilian Public Service during World War II as an alternative to combat duty and explores the contribution they were able to make to American society.