Twenty-five years after the Greenham march, David Fairhall has contributed an enjoyable and informative history of Greenham Common.
It doesn't plod chronologically through the decades, but mixes the more interesting vignettes of the women's peace camp into the wider political and military context. As a history of a place it also includes quite detailed accounts of the complex legal manoeuvres which led to the partial restoration of the common. The women's peace camp is treated…