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  • Anthrax Island

    Series Book 1 - The John Tyler series
    One of Ian Rankin’s top ten books of 2021.‘One of the thrillers of the year’ Scottish SunWhen you have a problem that can’t be solved, you call John Tyler.Nine people are trapped on an anthrax-infested, government-controlled island off the west coast of Scotland when the door to their decontamination chamber suddenly stops opening.The only man who can fix the door – the onsite technician – is dead ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biohazard

    The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It

    “Read and be amazed. . . . An important and fascinating look into a terrifying world of which we were blissfully unaware.”—Robin Cook, author of ContagionAnthrax. Smallpox. Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful world prepared for nuclear winter, an elite team of Russian bioweaponeers began to till a new killing field: a bleak tract sown with powerful seeds ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Demon in the Freezer

    A True Story

    **“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navyThe first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Alchemy of Air

    A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler

    by Thomas Hager ...
    A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives—including your own.At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster: Mass starvation was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world’ s scientists to find a solution.This is the story of the two men who found it: brilliant, self-important ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Great Halifax Explosion

    A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism

    by John U. Bacon ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe "riveting" (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the ashes“Enthralling. ... Gripping. ... A captivating and emotionally investing journey.” —Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAfter steaming out of New York City on December 1, 1917, laden with a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • B-29 Superfortress

    The Plane That Won the War

    by Gene Gurney ...
    B-29 Superfortress: The Plane that Won the War is the definitive work on the crucial role played by the super bomber during World War II. Author Gene Gurney takes the reader from the plane's inception, test flights and production to its combat deployments and its ultimate purpose of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Read more

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  • The Pentagon's Brain

    An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

    Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Higher Form of Killing

    The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare

    A Higher Form of Killing opens with the first devastating battlefield use of lethal gas in World War I, and then investigates the stockpiling of biological weapons during World War II and in the decades afterward as well as the inhuman experiments con-ducted to test their effectiveness. This updated edition includes a new Introduction and a new final chapter exposing frightening developments in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • At War With The Wind:

    The Epic Struggle With Japan's World War II Suicide Bombers

    by David Sears ...
    Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan’s terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.S. Navy Officer David Sears vividly portrays what it was like to experience this tactic, capturing the real-life dramas behind America’s first confrontation with the psychology and devastating impact of suicide warfare.In the last days of World War II, a new and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • War of Nerves

    Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda

    In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present.At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of synthetic chemistry made the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the battlefield both feasible and cheap. Tucker explores the long debate over the military ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hellfire Boys

    The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World¿s Deadliest Weapons

    by Theo Emery ...
    This explosive look into the dawn of chemical warfare during World War I is "a terrifying piece of history that almost no one knows" (Hampton Sides).In 1915, when German forces executed the first successful gas attack of World War I, the world watched in horror as the boundaries of warfare were forever changed. Cries of barbarianism rang throughout Europe, yet Allied nations immediately jumped ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Germs

    Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

    In this “engrossing, well-documented, and highly readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to reveal Washington's secret strategies for combating germ warfare and the deadly threat of biological and chemical weapons.**Today Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Cold War

    A Military History

    Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Cassidy's Run

    The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas

    by David Wise ...
    Cassidy's Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War—an espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels of the government, its code name was Operation shocker.Lured by a double agent working for the United States, ten Russian spies, including a professor at the University of Minnesota, his wife ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Waiting for an Army to Die

    The Tragedy of Agent Orange

    "I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it," said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen. During the war, the US sprayed an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Iran–Iraq War

    The Lion of Babylon, 1980–1988

    Series series Cold War, 1945–1991
    The dramatic story of the brutal eight-year war between these rival powers in the 1980s, with numerous photos included.The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War. It is best remembered for the unique so-called Tanker War, which threatened to strangle the world’s oil supplies.At the time, defense analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aftermath: The Remnants of War

    From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat

    In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the undetonated bombs and mines of World War I that are now rising up in fields, gardens, and backyards; ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Courage

    The Classic WWI Study of the Psychological Effects of War

    'A remarkably human book . . . arresting, and sometimes even unforgettable'Desmond McCarthy, Sunday Times'A fascinating book . . . It is not easy to do justice to Lord Moran's discursive brilliancy . . . a masterly piece of work'Times Literary Supplement'I set out to find how courage is born and how it is sustained in a modern army of a free people. The soldier is alone in his war with terror and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Survival Manual

    by Dick Couch ...
    In this comprehensive guide, military experts teach you how to survive an attack on American soil, from North Korean missiles to weaponized smallpoxNorth Korean nukes. Emerging epidemic and pandemic disease. Dirty bombs in train stations. Chemical warfare. Americans have more reasons than ever to be afraid. If a nuclear missile strikes, will you know what to do? If a nerve agent is released in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Secret History of Chemical Warfare

    This book offers a full examination and description of all the toxic chemical and microbiological agents, either tested, manufactured or used since 1914. It identifies the major research, testing and manufacturing plants worldwide with special emphasis on the UK and North America. Among the British sites are Porton Down (Wiltshire), Sutton Oak (Lancashire), Nancekuke (North Cornwall) and the ICI ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • CIA Forbidden Book: Agenda 2033 The Second Wave Pandemic Of Fear

    by Igor Kryan ...
    You have 80 Trillion viruses in your body. You are a living factory of bacteria and viruses and, on some occasions, you can even produce new never before seen types. In fact, viruses made you human by constantly injecting their RNA into your ancestors' DNA, they caused great apes to mutate in what we know today as mankind. Virus becomes harmful to you when your immune system starts to attack your ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Analysis of the Threat of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for Biological Warfare - Bioweapons, Biowar, Bioterrorism, Biotechnology, Synthesized DNA, Pathogens, Toxins, Weaponization

    Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book is an analysis of the threat of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for biological warfare. Evaluating the potential threats posed by advances in biotechnology, especially genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and synthetic biology remains a contentious issue. Some believe that, inevitably, these advances ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program: Origins of NBC Program, Project Coast, Wouter Basson, Transition to ANC Rule, Basson's Arrest and Trial, Mandela

    Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book analyzes the origins and development of the South African chemical and biological warfare (CBW) program, as well as its rollback. It concludes with a profile of South Africa as a state that produced weapons of mass destruction and with a list of outstanding questions. More than 20 policy lessons, based ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surviving the Apocalypse

    The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Nuclear War, Floods, Fire, Earthquakes, Civil Unrest, Pandemics, and More

    The Apocalypse could arrive at any moment, but with Surviving the Apocalypse**, you'll be well-prepared and well-trained enough to survive any disaster—even the end of the world as we know it.**Being prepared for what’s out there is important—you have to know what to do when everything falls apart. Knowing how to survive the end of the world as we know it will prepare you for anything and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD