The Fight for Peace (Warwick) is a bitter, angry omnibus of war, given point & purpose by a tart narrative from the pen of author Hendrik Willem Van Loon. These patched-fogether newsreel shots show actual scenes from modern war: liquid fire spraying Ethiopia; China's cities, roadsides and streams piled with stinking dead; anguished Spanish mothers digging their mangled children from smoking ruins, as big, black bombers wheel off overhead.
Stuff for sturdy stomachs only, The Fight for Peace is a sardonic documenting of the worldwide toll war has taken since the War to End War took 8,538,000 lives, maimed 21,000,000. Its purpose...
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