Kitty Traherne, a woman who served as a field nurse in France during World War I, inspires the wrath of her family and the admiration of editor Craig Cavanaugh when she writes a book in the mid-1930s, warning the country against the dangers of being drawn into another foreign war.

Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.

The idea of non-violence (passive resistance) has always seemed beautiful but too good to be true. As a practical proposition, it arouses skepticism and ridicule. But Mr. Gregg is strangely convincing. He marshals the whole weight of contemporary knowledge, and uses the experience of Gandhi, who has employed non-violence methods on a wider scale and with greater success than any other figure in history. Non-violent resistance is the doctrine of absolute...

In 1944, fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, recently orphaned, is sent to live at Camp Hale, Colorado, with an uncle he has never met, and there he finds his pacifist views put to the test.

The authors present the view that we are plunging into a new dark age of hatred and violence. While armies world-wide race to meet the realities of the twenty-first century, our peacemaking methods are outmoded. Our anti-war strategies should utilize the military, economic, and informational resources that are used to make war.