Keen as mustard : Britain's horrific chemical warfare experiments in Australia /

"This extraordinary expose uncovers the extent of Britain's inhuman treatment of Australian soldiers as mustard gas guinea-pigs during World War II. These top secret trials were conducted in North Queensland, with often shocking consequences for the hapless volunteers."--BOOK JACKET....

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Goodwin, Bridget
Fformat: Llyfr
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1998.
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245 1 0 |a Keen as mustard :  |b Britain's horrific chemical warfare experiments in Australia /  |c Bridget Goodwin. 
260 |a St Lucia, Qld. :  |b University of Queensland Press,  |c 1998. 
300 |a xviii, 361 p., [20] p. of plates :  |b ill., ports. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographic references (p. [300]-311) and index. 
505 0 |a 1. Human experimentation and chemical weapons -- 2. Mango Avenue, mustard gas and the Major -- 3. Useless defences -- 4. The Brook Island trials -- 5. "Volunteers" -- 6. Moira and the girls -- 7. Post-1943 understanding of chemical agents and the volunteers' quest for justice -- App. 1. WHO description of the toxicological symptoms of mustard gas poisoning -- App. 2. Reference index of volunteers and reports of chemical warfare experiments -- App. 3. Volunteers for chemical warfare experiments in 1942-43 -- App. 4. Maurice Maunder's commendation card -- App. 5. Causualty assessment of volunteers -- App. 6. The assault course -- App. 7. Gorrill's Brook Island instructions -- App. 8. Main chemical warfare agents -- App. 9. Volunteer's poem: "The Guinea Pigs" -- App. 10. Summary of health problems reported by US veterans. 
520 1 |a "This extraordinary expose uncovers the extent of Britain's inhuman treatment of Australian soldiers as mustard gas guinea-pigs during World War II. These top secret trials were conducted in North Queensland, with often shocking consequences for the hapless volunteers."--BOOK JACKET. "As well as graphically revealing the first-hand experiences of many survivors, this story delves into the origins of chemical warfare. It treats the scientific culture of experimentation and the growing movement to ban such weapons after the terrible gas casualties on the Western Front."--BOOK JACKET. 
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