Akst's new book, titled War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation who Revolutionized Resistance, is a fascinating and detailed history of this movement. If those of us who are against war in the second decade of the twenty-first century feel outnumbered by a factor of a few million, imagine what those who were against World War Two felt. Akst often repeats the mainstream understanding of political events without question even though evidence exists that challenges that understanding and renders it at best questionable.