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The History Press
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[2014]
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English
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Reveals for the first time the true extent of how chemistry rather than military strategy determined the shape, duration, and outcome of World War I Chemistry was not only a destructive instrument of World War I, but also protected troops and healed the sick and wounded. From bombs to bullets, gas to anesthetic, khaki to camouflage, chemistry was truly the alchemy of the war. This history explores its dangers and its healing potential, revealing how...
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During the course of the SARS-nCoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic, described in this book as "the event," many questions have been asked. Who is responsible for this event? Where did this virus come from? What happened in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)? Why did this happen? And many others.
In this book, many of these questions are answered, the dots are connected, and the navigation buoys anchored to steer by in this most terrible fact-filled account...
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Back from 44 - The Sacrifice and Courage of a Few. Nick Bentas, Staff Sergeant US Army Air Force, finds Marauder, trying to return to base, he remembers the different times in his life that led him up to this point. From enlistment to basic training to saying goodbye to his new wife, he remembers his deadly missions around France Germany and the wider Mediterranean. Experience how it was first hand to encounter enemy flak and fighter attacks, while...
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For decades, American Warfighters have come home from overseas only to find that they weren't done fighting. They knew from what they had seen, smelled, photographed, and recorded that toxic fumes from burn pits were causing cancer, respiratory illness, and other devastating illnesses. Still, the same government that exposed them to toxins argued that their illnesses were unconnected to that exposure.
Here are the inspiring stories of four military...
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According to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents, over 4000 Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) were found, secured, and destroyed in Iraq from 2003 to 2009. This information was originally classified to protect US and allied forces, as well as the Iraqi people. FOIA documentation provided in the appendices of this work confirms that "yellow cake" was also discovered and secured in Iraq during that same period of time. There was significant...
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The great War on Terror was not intentionally begun by the United States or its NATO allies. It came looking for us. America is a country that is an open society, where men like the 9/11 perpetrators could visit on a student visa and conduct the diabolical, fevered schemes of Osama bin Laden and other monsters from hell. Islamic extremists were angry that Western women are treated equally to men, can drive cars, and even show their faces in public....
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A Boydian Approach to Mastering Unconventional Warfare" is a seminal work that delves deeply into the strategic principles of John Boyd, a legendary military strategist, and applies them to the complex realm of unconventional warfare. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of Boyd's key concepts, most notably the OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act), and explores their application in the context of irregular and asymmetric conflicts that...
8) AZF
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Breslau, 1868, Fritz Haber voit le jour près de la grande synagogue de la Cigogne Blanche dans le quartier Juif de la ville. Chimiste de génie il met au point la synthèse de l'ammoniac, permet la production industrielle d'engrais azotés et prévient la famine pour plusieurs milliards d'être humain. Avant la découverte de Fritz Haber, les engrais azotés nécessitaient de prélever le guano sud-américain et le salpêtre du Chili dont les réserves...
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Poison gas was one of the most feared weapons of its day and added a terrifying new dimension to modern warfare. In 1915, the only item a soldier had to protect himself from the harmful effects of gas was a shell dressing, soaked in his own urine and then tied around his face. By 1918, the British Army had developed a range of innovative protection methods that heralded the birth of the modern day military respirator. Throughout both World Wars, Great...
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Sumérgete en el corazón de uno de los conflictos más impactantes y complejos de nuestro tiempo con "Sombras de Guerra: Ucrania y Rusia en el Conflicto Moderno". Este libro te llevará a un viaje fascinante a través de los entresijos políticos, culturales y militares que han definido la relación entre Ucrania y Rusia en el siglo XXI.A través de una narrativa meticulosamente investigada y envolvente, el autor desentraña los eventos que han dado...
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In 1915, when German forces executed the first successful gas attack of World War I, the world watched in horror as the boundaries of warfare were forever changed. Cries of barbarianism rang throughout Europe, yet Allied nations immediately jumped into the fray, kickstarting an arms race that would redefine a war already steeped in unimaginable horror.
Largely forgotten in the confines of history, the development of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service...
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As Julie Willis transitioned from being a government contractor inside Army Futures Command, to being an entrepreneur in defense innovation, she was, thrown into the forefront of disruptive technologies and potential espionage, during the beginning of the Covid lockdown.
Conceal Reveal is about the gritty reality of the dysfunction of military modernization and the ecosystem that has been allowed to grow around it. It reveals the innovative, exciting...
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Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending billions of dollars per year on medical countermeasures and biological detection systems. But most of this funding now comes from the Department of Health...
14) Vietnam War Women Veterans Signs and Symptoms of Long-Lasting Physical and Psychological Injuries in
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It is well-known that war veterans experience long-lasting physical and psychological injuries following their deployment, and recent studies have proposed the construct of moral damage to explain the moral and spiritual effects of war on individuals.
Current research on moral injury has focused solely on male veterans. However, women have served in the military since colonial times, most often as nurses.
This book identified signs and symptoms...
15) American Anthrax
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From Jeanne Guillemin, one of the world's leading experts on anthrax and bioterrorism, the definitive account of the anthrax investigation
It was the most complex case in FBI history. In what became a seven-year investigation that began shortly after 9/11-with America reeling from the terror attacks of al Qaeda-virulent anthrax spores sent through the mail killed Bob Stevens, a Florida tabloid photo editor. His death and, days later, the discovery...
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A comprehensive survey of organic compounds used as poisons-on arrows and spears, in food, and even as insecticides-by numerous Native American tribes.
Biological warfare is a menacing twenty-first-century issue, but its origins extend to antiquity. While the recorded use of toxins in warfare in some ancient populations is rarely disputed (the use of arsenical smoke in China, which dates to at least 1000 BC, for example) the use of "poison arrows"...
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In 1943, a top-secret consignment of chemical weapons, including deadly mustard gas, arrived in Australia by ship. But, there was a problem, it was leaking. Military authorities quickly realized this but, in the interests of secrecy, sent unprotected and unsuspecting wharf laborers into a lethal environment. The result was catastrophic: permanent disability and death. This shocking narrative includes accounts of official deceit, intimidation of gassed...
18) North
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A Guardian Book of the Month'Echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on SouthIf a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...The USA has been ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease - the North has emerged victorious, but terrified of reprisals. Both territories remain at the mercy of the...
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A wife tells of her husband's combat missions-and the Agent Orange exposure that changed both their lives.
Through her husband's letters from Southeast Asia about his combat missions in Vietnam and over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos in 1971 and 1972, Marge Hansen shares a gripping journey into one of the most divisive and turbulent periods in the nation's history. Brave Warriors, Humble Heroes: A Vietnam War Story captures in a flier's words the conflict,...
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Biological weapons are the least well understood of the so-called weapons of mass destruction. Unlike nuclear and chemical weapons, biological weapons are composed of, or derived from, living organisms. In Living Weapons, Gregory D. Koblentz provides a comprehensive analysis of the unique challenges that biological weapons pose for international security. At a time when the United States enjoys overwhelming conventional military superiority, biological...
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