Aftermath: the Remnants of War
From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--the Devastating Effects of Modern Combat
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 12, 1998
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp, sobering look at war’s lingering damage, built for study and reference.
- Genres
- Other Military Conflicts, Nuclear Warfare, Vietnam War History
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 12, 1998
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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 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.
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Aftermath excavates our century's darkest history, revealing that the destruction of the past remains deeply, inextricably embedded in the present.
War’s Aftermath
A sharp, sobering look at war’s lingering damage, built for study and reference.
Come here for
- modern combat’s long shadow
- clear-eyed context for study or shelves
Expect
- landmines to chemical warfare
- history with an aftereffect in every chapter
Where it sits
| Other Military Conflicts | 59% |
|---|---|
| Vietnam War History | 42% |
| Nuclear Warfare | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Chemical & Biological Warfare
- World History
- 20th-Century History
- Authors
- Donovan Webster
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- May 12, 1998
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Chemical & Biological Warfare