Aftermath: the Remnants of War From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat

Name: Aftermath: the Remnants of War From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat
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ISBN: 9780679751533

ISBN-10: 067975153X

ISBN-13: 9780679751533

Edition: N/A

Authors: Donovan Webster

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In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the undetonated bombs and mines of World War I that are now rising up in fields, gardens, and backyards; in a sixty-square-mile area outside Stalingrad that was a cauldron of destruction in 1941 and is today an endless field of bones; in the Nevada deserts, where America waged a hidden nuclear war against itself in the 1950's, the results of which are only now becoming apparent; in Vietnam, where a…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/12/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.18" wide x 8.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English