Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1202180 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Synopsis
Surveys the enormous human damage done by the millions of anti-personnel land mines in scores of countries around the world, detailing the lives of the victims and assessing the ways the mines might be removed.

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Recent Review
"An eloquent case against ordnance that was characterized by no less an authority than William Tecumseh Sherman as "not war, but murder."
--Kirkus Reviews

Customer Reviews

Landmine statistics transformed into human reality
Dragons' Teeth? Landmines? One and the same. Statistics? People? One and the same. Philip Winslow has taken the seemingly unending plethora of statistics regarding landmine incidents, One every twenty minutes of every day of every year somewhere in the world, and put a human face on the problem. For example: An Angolan woman who has lost a leg to a landmine, and whose brother, as a soldier, placed landmines in the ground in the same country. An American student in Israel who loses a leg while camping. British deminers now working to clear the land. A Canadian Peacekeeper killed in Croatia while removing landmines. All statistics, but also all very real people. And Winslow has the ability to take you to the site of their encounters with these deadly weapons and experience it for yourself. All that is missing is the noise, the smell, the confusion, the anguish - and the pain. A chilling reminder of the monumental problem facing the world community; to rid the land of these "Silent Soldiers," left buried in the ground long after the conflict is over and the human soldiers either have been buried, or have departed for home. And a reminder that Nationality, place of birth, sex, age or affluence makes no difference to the "Silent Soldier" about to be trod upon and detonated. "Must reading" for those North Americans who believe they are not affected, nor will they be affected, by the mines buried in the ground in some far off place. I can unequivocally state that landmines can and do affect "North Americans". My son happens to be the Canadian Peacekeeper mentioned above, and one might therefore say I am biased in regards to this publication. However, having read many reports and publications about landmines in the three years since his death, I have found none that has the ability to pique my interest and compels me to read on, as has "Sowing the Dragon's Teeth." Bravo, Philip Winslow!