Greenpeace - Sean Sheehan

Greenpeace is an organization that focuses awareness on global environmental issues, such as global warming and deforestation, through direct-action campaigns. This book charts the growth of Greenpeace from a small group of activists to a multinational organization, and assesses how successful the organization has been in drawing attention to and addressing the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.

Sean Sheehan has a degree in Ancient Literature and History. He is fascinated by all aspect of of the ancient world, and in particular the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. A visit to Auschwitz in the 1970s sparked off an interest in the history of the Jewish people and the Holocaust, and since then Sean has spent much time reading and researching the subject. He has also written two books for Hodder Wayland about the Holocaust.