Napalm : an American biography /

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Robert Neer has written the first history of napalm, from its inaugural test on the Harvard College soccer field, to a Marine Corps plan to attack Japan with millions of bats armed with tiny napalm time bombs, to the reflections of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a girl who knew firsthand about its power and its...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neer, Robert M., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Napalm > History.
Incendiary weapons > History.
Incendiary bombs > Design and construction > History.
Napalm > Histoire.
Armes incendiaires > Histoire.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Weapons.
Armed Forces > Weapons systems
Incendiary weapons
Napalm
United States > Armed Forces > Weapons systems > History.
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Hero
  • Harvard's genius
  • Anonymous research no. 4
  • American kamikazes: suicide bomber bats
  • We'll fight mercilessly
  • The American century
  • Soldier
  • Freedom's furnace
  • Vietnam syndrome
  • Seeing is believing
  • Indicted
  • Pariah
  • Baby burners
  • Trial of fire
  • The third protocol
  • Judgment day
  • The weapon that dare not speak its name
  • Epilogue: the whole world is watching.

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