Walking through the Wall
- ISBN-10
- 1105608816
- ISBN-13
- 9781105608810
- Category
- Antinuclear movement
- Pages
- 524
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-04-16
- Publisher
- Lulu.com
- Author
- Kevin James Shay
Description
A journalist from Texas, Shay walked for peace from Dallas to Moscow in 1984-85, "A Walk of the People," and about 600 miles in India in 1987-88. "Walking Through the Wall" is his account of these walks. When in 1984 the nuclear arms race intensified -- nuclear arms increasing on both sides and leaders seemingly intransigent -- Shay and others joined together in A Walk of the People to raise awareness of the nuclear danger and to break through the governments' walls. His journey's urgent purpose and the stories he tells of individual and official breakthroughs during the march call us today to join the struggle to avert nuclear war. -- Danish Peace Academy review.
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