Napalm : : An American Biography /

Napalm : : An American Biography / / Robert M. Neer.

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Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentine's Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo-more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Naga...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Neer, Robert M.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 41 halftones, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • HERO
  • 1 Harvard's Genius
  • 2 Anonymous Research No. 4
  • 3 American Kamikazes
  • 4 We'll Fight Mercilessly
  • 5 The American Century
  • SOLDIER
  • 6 Freedom's Furnace
  • 7 Vietnam Syndrome
  • 8 Seeing Is Believing
  • 9 Indicted
  • PARIAH
  • 10 Baby Burners
  • 11 Trial of Fire
  • 12 The Third Protocol
  • 13 Judgment Day
  • 14 The Weapon That Dare Not Speak Its Name
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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