Who cleans up when a war is finished? In Aftermath Donovan Webster, a journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, answers that question by reporting how land mines and other weapons from twentieth-century battlefields continue to maim and kill long after the battles themselves are over.

In Kuwait, munitions experts from six nations are still moving slowly across the sands, an inch at a time, to disarm some of the seven million land mines planted during the Gulf War. In Vietnam, thousands of babies with birth defects continue to be born, victims of Agent Orange sprayings decades ago. And in the United States, nuclear testing will have caused four hundred thousand deaths by the year 2000. In riveting detail, Donovan Webster shows how the lethal remnants of past battles remain tragically potent in the present.

"A poignant reminder of the vast killing fields that the rages of battle have left behind". -- The New York Times

"Haunting....A sobering demonstration (of) the devastation of twentieth-century warfare". -- Seattle Times