Napalm An American Biography

Name: Napalm An American Biography
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ISBN: 9780674073012

ISBN-10: 0674073010

ISBN-13: 9780674073012

Edition: 2013

Authors: 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 Nagasaki. It went on to incinerate sixty-four of Japan’s largest cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work.After World War II, the incendiary held the line against communism in Greece and Korea—Napalm Day led the 1950 counter-attack from Inchon—and fought elsewhere under many flags. Americans generally applauded, until the Vietnam War. Today, napalm lives on as a pariah: a symbol of American…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 290
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Prologue: Trang Bang Village, South Vietnam, June 8, 1972


Hero



Harvard's Genius



Anonymous Research No. 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


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index