Fighter for Peace: Philip Noel-Baker, 1884-1982 [Paperback]

David J. Whittaker (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: William Sessions Limited (September 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1850720568
• ISBN-13: 978-1850720560
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,606,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A study of a titanic man, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1959, July 10, 2011

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Book Description (from the publisher):

"A more peaceful world has to be fought for; such was the message of Lord Philip Noel-Baker, who died in 1982 after 80 years of public campaigning. This biography is a record of his thinking and achievements built up out of archival material of fascinating variety and complexity, supplemented by evidence-in-interview from some of his colleagues. ...

...Pre-eminent as a disarmer, he wrote knowledgeably and passionately on the subject and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1959. His fervour and experience enabled him to deal resolutely both in the Commons and at Labour Part Conferences with the great issues of unilateralism, Korea, Vietnam, and Suez. At the very end, as a Life Peer, his stand over the Falklands War and over disarmament at the United Nations shows him indefatigable, positive, and ever-optimistic."

401 pages.
Fully indexed. References
20 Black and white photographic plates.