He persistently refers to mortar projectiles as ''mortars,'' Unfortunately, this interesting book is marred by the author's apparent unfamiliarity with military nomenclature, and his narrative is riddled with trivial but irritating historical lapses. Webster, a former editor of Outside magazine, introduces readers to some of the French, American and Vietnamese heroes who routinely risk death to root out old mines, bombs and shells, one at a time, sometimes themselves losing their He looks at the barren Khe Sanh battlefield in Vietnam, where, 28 years after the siege, children are still blown up by military debris, and he joins American contractors clearing minesįrom the Kuwait desert where the gulf war was fought in 1991.Īlong the way, Mr. He continues with a tour of the skeleton-strewn fields around Stalingrad,Īccompanied by a souvenir-collecting Russian guide. Webster takes the reader on a travelogue of horrors, beginning with his wanderings through the forests of Verdun and the Marne, still sown with deadly relics of World War I. ![]() ![]() ''Aftermath'' is a poignant reminder of the vast killing fields of unexploded mines, bombs and shells that the rages of battle have left behind, as well as of the sufferings brought by chemical and radioactive poisons. ![]() BROWNEĮrhaps the most unfair thing about war, that most unfair of all human activities, is the curse it lays upon the innocent descendants of the belligerents.
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