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Aftermath: The Remnants of War
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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780679431954 Book cover for 9780788196553
 
1 edition from Pantheon Books (September 1, 1996)
9780679431954 | details & prices | 279 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $23.00
About: Explores the physical, intellectual, and emotional ramifications of the wars of the twentieth century, from former minefields in rural France, to the nuclear debris of Nevada, to the ecological devastation of Kuwait
from Diane Pub Co (January 1, 1996)
9780788196553 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $25.00
About: 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.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780679751533
 
from Vintage Books (July 1, 1998)
9780679751533 | details & prices | 279 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $16.00
About: 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.