War and the Environment

War and the Environment PDF Author: Charles Edwin Closmann
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603443800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Book Description
Eleven scholars explore, among other topics, the environmental ravages of trench warfare in World War I, the exploitation of Philippine forests for military purposes from the Spanish colonial period through 1945, William Tecumseh Sherman's scorched-earth tactics during his 1864-65 March to the Sea, and the effects of wartime policy upon U.S. and German conservation practices during World War II.