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Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Land Mines and the Global Legacy of War
Contributor(s): Winslow, Philip C. (Author)
ISBN: 0807050059     ISBN-13: 9780807050057
Publisher: Beacon Press
OUR PRICE:   $14.85  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 1998
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Annotation: "Gives the statistics a painfully human face."
--The Washington Post Book World
Philip Winslow offers the most complete and compelling book on land mines--the issue brought to world attention with the awarding of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize to the Campaign to Ban Land Mines. He draws on his years as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa, and journeys into rural Angola, where he introduces us to the victims, the deminers, and the way land mines destroy economies and infrastructures. He also writes about the Campaign to Ban Land Mines and the ways we might finally pull the "dragon's teeth" from the earth, to restore it to those who live there.
"Winslow's fine book puts names and faces to the victims and begs us to beware. Only such harrowing testimony and eloquent pleading will rid us of this scourge."

--William F. Schulz, executive director, Amnesty International
"Winslow's moving and powerful book shows why some weapons are so insidious that they do not belong in the arsenals of civilized nations. A land mine is such a weapon. It should be banished from the earth."

--U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy
"Makes a strong case that such a ban--championed by the late Princess Diana--is a necessity."

--Boston Herald
"A thoughtful, sometimes harrowing portrait."

--Utne Reader
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - General
- History | Modern - 20th Century
- History | Military - Weapons
Dewey: 909.82
LCCN: 97002721
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.26" (0.51 lbs) 184 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - West Africa
- Ethnic Orientation - African
 
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Publisher Description:
Each year an estimated twenty-six thousand people are killed or maimed by land mines-more than 100 million of them sown like the mythical dragon's teeth in over seventy countries. These weapons are designed to maim soldiers, but most victims are civilians, especially the rural poor. Winslow writes about these people and the Campaign to Ban Landmines (which was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize in 1997). He tells about the efforts to pull the dragon's teeth from the earth so that it can be restored to those who live on it.