A must-read book by a key figure in the movement. Its argument is elegant and essential: Stop the War's protests changed the minds of millions and limited the power of Empire. It is an argument we need if we are to deal with the dangers ahead. - Tony Benn
Based on interviews and insider accounts, this book describes panic in Downing Street and despair in Whitehall, as Chris Nineham argues even a hostile media can be neutralised by a powerful mass movement.