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Biological weapons
Britain and Biological Warfare: Expert Advice and Science Policy, 1930–65 By Brian Balmer Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001, 246pp., £45.00 (hbk), ISBN 0–333–75430–1.
From Biological Warfare to Healthcare: Porton Down 1940–2000 By Peter Hammond and Gradon Carter Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002, 280pp., £50.00 (hbk), ISBN 0–333–75383–6.
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War By Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad Simon & Schuster, New York/London, 2001, 383pp., £10.00 (pbk), ISBN 0–743–23071‐X.
Disease by Design: De‐mystifying the Biological Weapons Debate By Michael Crowley BASIC, London/New York, 2001, 74pp., £7.00 (pbk), ISBN 0–874533–38–5.
Conventional war
Landmine Monitor Report 2001: Towards a Mine Free World International Campaign to Ban Landmines Human Eights Watch, New York, 2001, 1,200pp., no price given, ISBN 1–56432–262–9.
Surgeons at War: Medical Arrangements for the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded in the British Army during the late 18th and 19th Centuries By Matthew H Kaufman Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2001, 220pp., £54.95 (hbk), ISBN 0–313–31665–1.
Globalization and health
International Co‐operation in Health Edited by Martin McKee, Paul Garner and Robin Stott Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, 217pp., £39.50 (hbk), ISBN 0–19–263198–5.
Peacemaking
Searching for Peace: The Road to TRANSCEND Footnote* By Johan Galtung and Carl G Jacobsen Pluto Press, London, 2000, 296pp., £45.00 (hbk), ISBN 0–7453–1614‐X; £15.99(pbk), ISBN 0–7453–1613–1.
Refugees
Open Borders By Teresa Hayter Pluto Press, London, 2000, 188pp., £40.00 (hbk), ISBN 0–7453 1547‐X; £13.99(pbk), ISBN 0–7453–1542–9.
Notes
This review first appeared in Peace Matters 2001; 35 (Autumn). We are grateful to Jan Melichar of the Peace Pledge Union for permission to reprint here.