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Peace
50 years of protest
By Miles, Barry
- ISBN
- 978-0-76210-893-0
- Publisher
- Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, c2008.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2008
Adult/High School With more than 250 photos and illustrations and in clear, lively prose, Miles portrays the development of the peace symbol from its modest beginning to its representation of an era of widespread protest and cultural revolution. On April 8, 1958, a small group of disarmament protesters marched from London to Aldermaston, the site of Britain's top-secret nuclear weapons factory. A few days before, someone decided it would be a good idea to have a symbol to put on their placards. One of the marchers, a textile designer ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
