Reviews

``I have seen war. I hate war,'' declared F.D. Roosevelt, and anyone who survives reading this title will have the same sentiments. Laber (Helsinki Watch) and Rubin (Yale) have produced a volume based on hundreds of interviews with Afghan refugees. They present a summary, followed by far too many repetitive extracts from the interviews, and the reader is quickly numbed. They give no explanation or analysis of chemical or other forms of warfare. Human insensitivity to othersand compassioncome through far better in Arthur Bonner's Among the Afghans ( LJ 11/1/87) and Jan Goodwin's Caught in the Crossfire ( LJ 3/15/87). Donald Clay Johnson, Univ. of Minnesota Lib., Minneapolis