Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare
Disease as a Weapon of War
$55.47
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2023
Summary
This important, disturbing, and timely book focuses on the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction and the threat bioterrorism poses in an increasingly unpredictable and volatile future for the world. For context, it traces developments from the earliest primitive but effective days of infectious rams, poison-tipped arrows, and plague-infected corpses used as toxic, disease-spreading projectiles, to twenty-first-century industrial-scale weaponization of biomedicine.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399090803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399090801 |
| Author: | Paul Chrystal |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Military |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 584g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Paul Chrystal
Paul Chrystal is the author of a number of books on conflict and military history, including the best-selling British Army of the Rhine: The BAOR 1945-1993 (2018); Northern Ireland - The Troubles from the Provos to the Det 1968-1998 (2018); Women at War in the Ancient World (2016),Roman Military Disasters (2015); War in Greek Mythology (2020) and Rome: Republic into Empire - The Civil Wars (2019) all published by Pen & Sword. He is also author of A History of Britain in 100 Objects (2022); Wars and Battles of the Roman Republic (2015) and Wars and Battles of Ancient Greece (2018). His Biowarfare and Bioterrorism: Diseas as a Weapon of War is due for publication in 2023.
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