A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare

Author:   Robert Harris ,  Jeremy Paxman
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
ISBN:  

9780812966534


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   06 August 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Robert Harris ,  Jeremy Paxman
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Random House USA Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.314kg
ISBN:  

9780812966534


ISBN 10:   0812966538
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   06 August 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The best account of gas and germ warfare available. <br>-- The Washington Post <br><br> An absorbing and unsettling history, an exhaustive exploration of a little-known but potentially apocalyptic aspect of warfare, the whole thing carrying the punch of Armageddon. It reminds us that the world could end not with a nuclear bang but in whimpers of fevered agony. <br>-- Chicago Sun-Times <br><br> Compelling . . . The authors make clear why governments have shrouded such weapon programs in even more secrecy than their nuclear work. <br>-- Financial Times


The best account of gas and germ warfare available. <br>-- The Washington Post <br> An absorbing and unsettling history, an exhaustive exploration of a little-known but potentially apocalyptic aspect of warfare, the whole thing carrying the punch of Armageddon. It reminds us that the world could end not with a nuclear bang but in whimpers of fevered agony. <br>-- Chicago Sun-Times <br> Compelling . . . The authors make clear why governments have shrouded such weapon programs in even more secrecy than their nuclear work. <br>-- Financial Times


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Robert Harris is the author of the bestselling novels Fatherland, Enigma, and Archangel, as well as a number of nonfiction books. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and children. Jeremy Paxman reporter for Britain in mid-1970s Northern Ireland before joining Panorama. Assignments have taken him from Beirut to Uganda to Zimbabwe. A Higher Form of Killing is his first book.

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