Dealing with a Deadly Legacy : Aussie Soldiers Clearing Land Mines in Afghanistan

Fielding, Marcus

Verlag: Echo Books, Victoria, 2020 (a print-on-demand publication - may be a later printing).

Beschreibung

Card covers, xvii/294pp, colour photos. Light wear to card edges; a near fine copy, The story of ninety-two Australian combat engineers who helped to clear minefields in the midst of an ongoing civil war. Unarmed, dressed in mufti, disguised with beards and working through interpreters they helped to forge local expertise. Adding to the risks they had only a medic on hand in the event of becoming the victim of a mine blast; and the nearest hospital was over a full day s drive away. How none of them were killed or injured is remarkable. These Australian Army soldiers were working as part of a United Nations humanitarian mine clearance program in Pakistan and Afghanistan between 1989 and 1993. They blazed a path for future humanitarian land mine clearance efforts around the world. This book gives a revealing account of this little-known mission told by those that participated in it.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 182232

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Dealing with a Deadly Legacy : Aussie Soldiers Clearing Land Mines in Afghanistan
• Verlag: Echo Books, Victoria, 2020 (a print-on-demand publication - may be a later printing).