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“stephen engelberg”

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  • Germs

    Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

    by Judith Miller, William J Broad, Stephen Engelberg ...
    In this “engrossing, well-documented, and highly readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to reveal Washington's secret strategies for combating germ warfare and the deadly threat of biological and chemical weapons.**Today Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Holocaust

    A New History

    by Laurence Rees ...
    “This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Escape From Davao

    The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War

    by John D. Lukacs ...
    On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts executed a daring escapefrom one of Japan’s most notorious prison camps. The prisoners were survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March and the Fall of Corregidor, and the prison from which they escaped was surrounded by an impenetrable swamp and reputedly escape-proof. Theirs was the only successful group escape from a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Secrets & Lies

    Wouter Basson and South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme

    by Marléne Burger, Chandré Gould ...
    This is a tale of military machination and scientific subterfuge, of combatants who disappeared without trace, and bizarre experiments carried out behind locked doors. In waging ‘total war’ during the 1970s and 1980s, South African securocrats demanded a ‘total strategy’, including secret and unconventional means to fight the perceived ‘total onslaught’ against the apartheid regime. Against that ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Six-Legged Soldiers

    Using Insects as Weapons of War

    by Jeffrey A. Lockwood ...
    The emir of Bukhara used assassin bugs to eat away the flesh of his prisoners. General Ishii Shiro during World War II released hundreds of millions of infected insects across China, ultimately causing more deaths than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. These are just two of many startling examples found in Six-legged Soldiers, a brilliant portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Almighty

    Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age

    by Dan Zak ...
    ****A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"**ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT** in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure sites in the world, a bastion of warhead parts and hundreds of tons of highly enriched uranium—enough to power thousands ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Waiting for an Army to Die

    The Tragedy of Agent Orange

    by Fred A. Wilcox ...
    "I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it," said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen. During the war, the US sprayed an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • American Anthrax

    Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack

    by Jeanne Guillemin ...
    From Jeanne Guillemin, one of the world's leading experts on anthrax and bioterrorism, the definitive account of the anthrax investigationIt 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 ... Read more

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  • Bugs And Bombs: A History of the Chemical and Biological Arms Race

    by Lenny Flank ...
    Throughout the course of human history, disease and pestilence have killed far more people than wars ever have. It was only within recent decades, however, that political and military leaders have made the conscious decision to utilize disease and pestilence as weapons of war. This book is a history of the chemical and biological arms race, from its beginnings in China and Greece to the gas ... Read more

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  • The Anthrax Letters

    A Bioterrorism Expert Investigates the Attack That Shocked America

    by Leonard A. Cole ...
    At 2:00am on October 2, 2001, Robert Stevens entered a hospital emergency room. Feverish, nauseated, and barely conscious, no one knew what was making him sick. Three days later he was dead. Stevens was the first fatal victim of bioterrorism in America.Bioterrorism expert Leonard Cole has written the definitive account of the Anthrax attacks. Cole is the only person outside law enforcement to have ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Death By Mustard Gas

    How Military Secrecy and Lost Weapons Can Kill

    by Geoff Plunkett, Army History Unit, Australia. Department of Defence ...
    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 realised this but, in the interests of secrecy, sent unprotected and unsuspecting wharf labourers into a lethal environment. The result was catastrophic: permanent disability and death. This shocking narrative ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • British Military Respirators and Anti-Gas Equipment of the Two World Wars

    by Thomas Mayer-Maguire, Brian Baker ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.09 USD