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Download full book in pdf, epub, mobi and all ebook format. The horrors lockwood describes are stomachwrenching, as is the realization. Entomological warfare ew is a type of biological warfare that uses insects to interrupt supply lines by damaging crops, or direct harm to enemy combatants and civilian populations. Jeffrey lockwood sixlegged soldiers using insects as. Sciencenews sixlegged soldiers is an excellent account of the affect arthropodborne diseases have had on warfare. Zhongma fortress also zhong ma prison camp or unit togo was a prison camp where the japanese kwantung army carried out covert biological warfare research on human test subjects. These are just two of many startling examples found in sixlegged soldiers, a brilliant portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, and ultimately powerful ways in which insects have been used as weapons of war, terror, and torture. First book to reveal systematically the many ways in which insects have been and can be used a weapons.
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