On War

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Authors : Bernard Shaw Foreword Writer: Philip Pullman Translator: - Editor: - Series: ON Publication Date: November 2009 ISBN 13: 9781843916116 ISBN 10: 1843916118 Page Extent: 100 Price: £ 7.99 Add To Cart

Overview:

Nobel laureate, Oscar winner and author of over fifty plays, Bernard Shaw is perhaps as renowned for his political views as for his awe-inspiring artistic output. This new selection of his writings on war brings once more to the forefront the polemical writings of one of the most outspoken commentators of the early twentieth century.

As a co-founder of the Fabian society, an equal rights campaigner and an ardent socialist, Shaw was never known to shy away from controversy: he was accused of treason on the strength of his 1914 publication Common Sense About the War, which affronted patriots and the government alike. His vehemently anti-war stance was almost prophetic in its progressive nature, and many of his impassioned assertions now have a ring of prescience. 

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About the foreword writer:
Phillip Pullman is the author of the acclaimed series His Dark Materials.

'Shaw told the truth about war, as he did about many subjects... and he wrote with a classic and beautiful clarity that has the power to lift the spirits like champagne'

- Philip Pullman

'For such a slender volume, it's a telling and balanced collection.'

— The Observer