![]() ![]() it was he who had come up with the method of a grid square system for searching, the main areas being searched not once or twice but up to six times!! and yet there remained such a high number of not just unidentified but actually never recovered. From the introductory essay by Donovan Webster, the author of Aftermath: The Remnants of War. i also remember the obit some years ago, and I must say regretfully his name evades me, of the officer who had been in charge of searching the battlefields for remains. By Donovan Webster Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare-The Devastating Effects of Moder (Vintage Books ed) on. Between 110 and 120 million land mines are planted in the soil of more than 64 countries. ![]() One scene was particularly poignant when a long list of names was pinned up and scores of grieving women rushed to get a look at it to see if there husband son etc was on it. Donovan Webster, a former editor at Outside magazine, has written an eyewitness account of the impossible tasks involved with removing armaments that continue to kill after war has ceased. to present her lecture, The Effects of Maltreatment on. This is a book of reportage, in the mode of the William Shawn New Yorker: detailed, vivid, well-written and well-researched, neither scholarly nor philosophic. area for therapists to use books with their clients or show. I seem to remember a French film some time ago on tv centred around the activities of a french exhumation company. Donovan Webster shows us that the wars of this century have left a legacy waiting to explode under our feet, or else to poison us through the air. By Donovan Webster Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare-The Devastating Effects of Moder (Vintage Books ed) on. Where on earth did they start to put things back together again, and yet they did. Aftermath excavates our century's darkest history, revealing that the destruction of the past remains deeply, inextricably embedded in the present.Perhaps " Beaucourt Revisited" A P Herbert, best captures what is was like when the front moved on, but little captures what is was like say a year or so after the Armistice when all had left and left the battlefields to reclaimation. Looking for books by Donovan Webster See all books authored by Donovan Webster, including The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II (P.S.), and Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare-The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat, and more on. 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 20 product ratings (20) 15. ![]() ![]() 2024 Official Red Book Guide Of US Coins List Catalog Spiral Whitman. Although many individuals report a single specific traumatic event, others, especially those seeking mental health or substance abuse services, have been. He shows how the more effective the weaponry the worse the legacy for the survivors. Diane Publishing Company, 2001 - Technology & Engineering - 279 pages. If not, help out and invite Donovan to Goodreads. Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare-The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat. item 6 Aftermath: The Remnants of War by Webster, Donovan Aftermath: The Remnants of War by Webster, Donovan. Donovan Webster''s study into the after effec ts of modern warfare shows how battlefields are transformed and carry terrible legacies of enduring terror and memories. 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. Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare-The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat by Webster, Donovan and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at . 1,855 ratings 249 reviews 17 distinct works Similar authors More books by Donovan Webster Topics Mentioning This Author More Is this you Let us know. ![]()
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