Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War from an Unconventional Woman

Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of experiences in public and private life to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelong preoccupations have been the questioning of war, and the promotion of peace. Deveson tells of her childhood blown apart by World War II in bombed Britain, then invaded Malaya, to become a refugee in Australia. Of going back to Europe to see the heavy shadow of war there, and on her o...