LANDMINES IN WAR AND PEACE
Written by Mike Croll
Published by Pen & Sword Military
in 2008
ISBN: 9781844158416
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LANDMINES IN WAR AND PEACE
Written by Mike Croll.
Stock no. 1829746
1st.
2008.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
How technology and military tactics defined landminee development and deployment, why they are such an effective weapon of war, and how an unlikely alliance of soldiers, peace activists, development workers and celebrities succeeded in banning the use of anti-personnel mines. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. x and 214 pages including index. ISBN: 9781844158416. A lovely copy!
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Beginning of Mines
- Chapter 2 Gunpowder Mines
- Chapter 3 High-Explosive Mines
- Chapter 4 A New Arm of Warfare
- Chapter 5 The Second World War: Mines on the Battlefield
- Chapter 6 Demining after the Second World War
- Chapter 7 Preparing for the Third World War
- Chapter 8 Guerrilla Mining
- Chapter 9 Humanitarian Mine Action
- Chapter 10 Banning the Mine
- Chapter 11 The End of Mines?
- Appendix 1 German Landmine Production 1939-1945
- Appendix 2 Table showing estimates of Mines cleared in various countries and casualties sustained during clearance operations after the Second World War
- Appendix 3 US FASCAM (Family of Scatterable Mines) Systems
- Appendix 4 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction
- Bibliography
- Index