Peter Ackerman (2) (1946–)

These are powerful stories about truth overcoming lies, love dissolving evil, and life eclipsing death. Nonviolent valor can end oppression, and the world of the 21st century will be safer, freer, and more humane if it heeds the lessons of this book.

Text accompanying the PBS documentary. See also the two-video set by the same name.

An amazing history of events most often absent from standard history, including the phenomenal story of the women of Rossenstrasse: German women who freed their Jewish husbands from the Nazis through days of non-violent protests!

The written publication accompanying the documentary television series of the same name. "This tour de force ... tell[s] how popular movements have used nonviolent weapons to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders, and secure human rights in country after country over the past century" (from the back cover).