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The first anti-nuclear movement of the 50s and 60s was arguably one of the most significant, extra-parliamentary movements in modern British history. Dr Taylor makes use of a wide range of contemporary material, including the current views of leaders of the movement, to present this thorough examination of this first mass movement of its kind. 'Taylor's book is a timely corrective to anti-nuclear myth-making and generality, and the production is scholarly' New Statesman & Society

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Taylor has succeeded extremely well in writing a critical, dispassionate analysis of the movement's rise and decline up to 1965....His book is a major addition to our knowledge of recent British history. --Albion Likely to be accepted as an authoritative guide to the character, dynamics, and internal debates of this important extra-parliamentary movement. --International History Review Well written and nonpolemical....Will mostly interest specialists in British left-wing politics and protest movements. --Choice [This book] contains interesting and illuminating discussions of the moral foundations and political assumptions of a number of groups that formed the crazy-quilt ideological tangle of the British Left furing the period. It effectively illustrates the maddening propensity of such bodies to dig themselves into politically untenable positions. --American Historical Review

Taylor has succeeded extremely well in writing a critical, dispassionate analysis of the movement's rise and decline up to 1965....His book is a major addition to our knowledge of recent British history. --Albion<br> Likely to be accepted as an authoritative guide to the character, dynamics, and internal debates of this important extra-parliamentary movement. --International History Review<br> Well written and nonpolemical....Will mostly interest specialists in British left-wing politics and protest movements. --Choice<br> [This book] contains interesting and illuminating discussions of the moral foundations and political assumptions of a number of groups that formed the crazy-quilt ideological tangle of the British Left furing the period. It effectively illustrates the maddening propensity of such bodies to dig themselves into politically untenable positions. --American Historical Review<br>

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