War and the environment military destruction in the modern age /
edited by Charles E. Closmann.
- first edition.
- College Station : Texas A and M University Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (vi, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; no. 125 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: landscapes of peace, environments of war / America's military footprint: environmental implications of the U.S. army since 1789 / Wood for war: the legacy of human conflict on the Philippine forests, 1565-1945 / Devouring the land: Sherman's 1864-65 campaigns / Environments of death: trench warfare on the western front 1914-18 / Total war? administering Germany's environment in two world wars / World War II and the axis of disease: battling malaria in twentieth-century Italy / Birds on the home front: wildlife conservation in the western United States during World War II / Creating the natural fortress: landscape, resistance, and memory in the Vercors, France / Wartime destruction and the postwar cityscape / Charles Edwin Closmann -- J.R. McNeill and David S. Painter -- Greg Bankoff -- Lisa M. Brady -- Dorothee Brantz -- Frank Uekötter -- Marcus Hall -- Robert Wilson -- Chris Pearson -- Jeffry M. Diefendorf.