# Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

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- Authors: [Virginia Woolf](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-woolf)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-08-27

## Description

The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it is a sound - far more than prayers and anthems - that should compel one to think about peace. Unless we can think peace into existence we - not this one body in this one bed but millions of bodies yet to be born - will lie in the same darkness and hear the same death rattle overhead.' Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

## Editions

### Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4195-705-0
- Published: 2009-08-27
- Language: en_GB