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This is an extract from the book Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (Headline Publishing Group, 2020).
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Headline
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2022-03-18
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GRIPPING, MOVING AND INSPIRING: the remarkable life of a world-leading expert in chemical weapons defence."Unlike any account of warfare I've read" - Billy BillinghamFor thirty years, Hamish has served and volunteered in conflict zones around the world. As the army's...
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Headline
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2020-09-03
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EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT WAR IS WRONG. We are living in an age of conflict: Russia's resurgence and China's rise, global terrorism, international criminal empires, climate change and dwindling natural resources.But while the West has been playing the same old...
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Penguin
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2019-06-13
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Stalin's Secret Weapon is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons program, including its key scientists, its secret experimental bases and the role of intelligence specialists, establishing beyond doubt that the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-10-15
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This explosive look into the dawn of chemical warfare during World War I is "a terrifying piece of history that almost no one knows" (Hampton Sides). In 1915, when German forces executed the first successful gas attack of World War I, the world watched in horror as the...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2017-11-14
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In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may...
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Hachette Australia
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2017-07-25
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‘Everyone should spend a couple of hours of their life reading it, to remind themselves that, even in the darkest depth of human misery, the bravest souls still exist.’ Sunday TimesSince ISIS occupied Raqqa in eastern Syria, it has become one of the most isolated and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2017-03-09
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Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful,...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2015-09-15
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From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-09
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From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-08
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The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies...
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Headline
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2014-06-05
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'A remarkably human book . . . arresting, and sometimes even unforgettable' Desmond McCarthy, Sunday Times'A fascinating book . . . It is not easy to do justice to Lord Moran's discursive brilliancy . . . a masterly piece of work' Times Literary Supplement'I set out to...
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Robinson
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2013-08-15
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Nuclear Weapons Counterproliferation: A New Grand Bargain proposes a new legal and institutional framework for counterproliferation of nuclear weapons. Its proposal is designed to remedy the widely acknowledged breakdown of the architecture of theNuclear...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-04-08
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Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster.In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-10-10
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The secret story of chemical and biological warfare.A Higher Form of Killing was first published to great acclaim in 1982.The authors have written a new Introduction and a new Epilogue to take account of the events that have happened since the early 1980s - including...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-15
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In this comprehensive guide, military experts teach you how to survive an attack on American soil, from North Korean missiles to weaponized smallpox North Korean nukes. Emerging epidemic and pandemic disease. Dirty bombs in train stations. Chemical warfare. Americans...
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Basic Books
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2008-08-06
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Written for the popular reader, this small volume contains short chapters on the science behind germ warfare. How diseases occur, the creation and use of vaccines, viral genomics, and resistance to antibiotics are some of the topics.
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Grand Central Publishing
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2002-12-02
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