A history of chemical warfare /

On 22nd April 1915 a greenish yellow cloud drifted across no-mans-land on the Ypres Salient - chemical warfare had begun. This book examines chemical warfare in the Twentieth Century, starting with the First World War and moving on through the inter-war period, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coleman, Kim, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Chemical warfare > History.
Guerre chimique > Histoire.
HISTORY > Military > Biological & Chemical Warfare.
Chemical warfare
Military Engineering.
Military & Naval Science.
Law, Politics & Government.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Historical Precedents?
  • The First World War
  • The Inter-War Years 1919-1939
  • The Second World War
  • The Soviet Threat, Korea and Vietnam 1945-1975
  • The Middle East, Afghanistan, Bosnia and the Gulf
  • Chemical Terrorism
  • Controlling Chemical Weapons.
  • Historical precedents?
  • The First World War
  • The inter-war years, 1919-1939
  • The Second World War
  • The Soviet threat, Korea, and Vietnam, 1945-1975
  • The Middle East, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and the Gulf
  • Chemical terrorism
  • Controlling chemical weapons.

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