World Peace Day is on September 21, but it’s unlikely the world will be pacified by then (and if, not for long…) Get a mostly historical view on War and Peace with 10 gems from our catalog. War and Peace – we wouldn’t know one without the other. Michael Earls, Jesuit priest, writer, poet, and teacher wrote Ballads of Peace in War about WWI. There he finds no gods but the God of War, and an unexpected prisoner… Aristophanes’s comedy Peace tells us the outcome of his journey. The best viewpoint on peace lies in the aftermath of war.