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Napalm : an American biography / Robert M. Neer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674075450
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • UG447 .N373 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Hero -- Harvard's genius -- Anonymous research numbers 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.
Abstract: 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 morality.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction UG447.65 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn831658265

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue -- Hero -- Harvard's genius -- Anonymous research numbers 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.

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 morality.

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