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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Tác giả chính:	Goodwin, Bridget
Định dạng:	Sách
Ngôn ngữ:	English
Được phát hành:	St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1998.
Những chủ đề:	Mustard gas > Testing. Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous > Australia > War use > Testing. Chemical weapons > Australia > Testing. Chemical weapons Human experimentation Defence personnel Great Britain Federal issue Mustard gas

Mục lục:

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.

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

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