The History of Landmines

The History of Landmines
Author: Mike Croll
Publisher: Leo Cooper Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

"While public interest in landmines is recent, their use and that of their non-explosive predecessors has a history which spans 2,500 years. Mike Croll explains the development, employment and reactions to these weapons from the concealed spikes of antiquity to the electronically-fused systems of today." "The History of Landmines takes the reader from ancient Rome to the colonial wars and from the American Civil War to the Gulf War explaining why increasing numbers of these devices have been used and how they have become more sophisticated. The genesis of the present humanitarian crisis is fully described along with the problems of clearing landmines today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

America's Buried History

America's Buried History
Author: Kenneth R. Rutherford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781611214536

"America's Buried History traces the development of landmines from their first use before the Civil War, to the early use of naval mines, through the establishment of the Confederacy's Army Torpedo Bureau, the world's first institution devoted to developing, producing, and fielding mines in warfare."--Provided by publisher,

Landmines

Landmines
Author: Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1993
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781564321138

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Breaking Ground

Breaking Ground
Author: Heidi Kühn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1647221293

A memoir of a quest to eradicate landmines from the face of the Earth—and replace dangerous ground with productive farmland: “Kuhn is an inspiration.” —Gillian Sorensen, former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General After surviving a bout with cancer, Heidi Kühn decided to devote herself to ridding the world of another kind of life-threatening scourge: landmines in regions as far-flung as Croatia, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. Inspired by the work of the late Princess Diana, Heidi began the humanitarian organization Roots of Peace from the basement of her Northern California home. She gained the support of famed Napa Valley vintners Robert Mondavi and Mike Grgich, and soon her “mines-to-vines” mission began to take hold. In this powerful memoir, Heidi tells the Roots of Peace story, from the early days in which she built her vision to her current presence on the global stage, where she has worked with presidents, prime ministers, landmine survivors, and religious leaders from around the world to spread a message of peace and recovery. In the years since the founding of Roots of Peace, its agricultural projects have made tremendous progress to fight against landmines, revitalizing devastated land and uplifting the lives of countless people in the process. This is a story of healing, faith, and how an ordinary person can inspire remarkable change—and plant the seeds of a brighter future.

Landmines in the Path of the Believer

Landmines in the Path of the Believer
Author: Charles F. Stanley
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781400280315

Dr. Stanley identifies seven destructive temptations and gives Christians the hope and skills they need to live an abundant and obedient life. He shows readers how to identify, avoid, or defuse landmines of pride, jealousy and envy, insecurity, compromise, unforgiveness, sexual sin, and laziness.

Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines

Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2001-04-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309073499

This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively, reducing the danger to uninvolved civilians while improving the effectiveness of the U.S. military. Landmines are an important weapon in the U.S. military's arsenal but the persistent variety can cause unintended casualties, to both civilians and friendly forces. New technologies could replace some, but not all, of the U.S. military's antipersonnel landmines by 2006. In the period following 2006, emerging technologies might eliminate the landmine totally, while retaining the necessary functionalities that today's mines provide to the military.

Stepping Into a Minefield

Stepping Into a Minefield
Author: Ian Mansfield
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781925275520

Ian Mansfield was serving in the Australian Army when he was selected to command a team of Australian combat engineers to go to Pakistan to train Afghan refugees in mine-clearance procedures. With millions of refugees expected to return to Afghanistan, the United Nations saw a humanitarian crisis looming and requested help from Western countries to tackle the landmine problem. In September 1991, Ian, along with his wife and two young children, left Australia on a one-year assignment ... and didn't return home for 20 years. This highly personal account recalls Ian's pioneering efforts to set up a civilian program in Afghanistan to clear landmines for humanitarian purposes, and then his decision to leave the Australian Army and join the United Nations. He continued to work in the mine-action sector, setting up programs in Laos and Bosnia, and then working at the policy level at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Stepping into a Minefield highlights the dangers and the tragedies involved in landmine clearance, but also reveals the great humanity, dedication and humor of the thousands of brave men and women clearing landmines today. It also outlines the political, cultural and security 'minefields' that Ian had to navigate along the way, which were often more difficult to deal with than the real minefields.

Taming the Landmine

Taming the Landmine
Author: Peter Stiff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1986-01
Genre: Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN: 9780947020040

The development of the landmine as a tactical weapon, combined with the efforts made to combat its devastating effects, is followed in this title.