![]() of which there remained vast quantities at the time this book was written 90 years after the wars end. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Donovan Webster, Genuine Secret Of FreemasonryF. ![]() of Authors: 3988 Top 10 Non Fiction Books. 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 nation's effort to remove the physical detritus of war has created psychological and genetic devastation in Kuwait, where terrifyingly sophisticated warfare was followed by the Sisyphean task of making an uninhabitable desert capable of sustaining life.Īftermath excavates our century's darkest history, revealing that the destruction of the past remains deeply, inextricably embedded in the present. All about Aftermath: the Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare-The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat by Donovan Webster. Aftermath: The Remnants Of War: From Landmines To Chemical Warfare The Devastating Effects Of Modern Combat Donovan Webster.
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