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A good book, by turns entertaining and sobering...
By C. Ball
We tend to think of biochemical warfare as a fairly recent development, perhaps beginning with the use of poison gas on the WW1 battlefields. These days it is probably a bigger fear than traditional weapons - germ warfare, weaponised pathogens, chemical weapons, nerve gases... But as Adrienne Minor shows in this fascinating and unorthodox exploration of military history, its roots arguably go back much much further, as far back as mythic history. Drawing on sources from Greek and Roman myth, ranging from the Trojan War to the Christian biblical accounts, she demonstrates how man has been drawing on the natural world for weapons for a very long time.This book is full of accounts of poison arrows, toxic honey, poisoned wells, naptha and Greek Fire, booby-trapped containers rigged with plague, grenades filled with live hornets and scorpions, catapults of snakes, the list goes on. Truly, the inventiveness of man knows no bounds. If there was a way to use it to hurt, wound, maim or kill, someone somewhere has probably already tried it, and quite possibly a very long time ago too. The flaming pigs to combat war-elephants was a real eye-opener for me!That said, this book does stretch the term biochemical warfare to its broadest definition. Few of the examples here would really fit with our modern definition of the term - as in something deliberately, artificially and chemically weaponised. The early use of naphtha and Greek Fire would count - I'm not sure filling clay jars with scorpions and hurling them at one's enemies does. Or, for that matter, dipping arrow-tips in snake venom or spiking wine. 'Unconventional' weapons might be a better term.But for all that, it's a good book, by turns entertaining and sobering, and it has some interesting things to say about the moral viewpoint of artificial weaponry and how it has always been seen as an underhanded and cowardly method of waging warfare, a viewpoint that continues today. And the unintended consequences of unleashing nature's deadly secrets is also something that we today are just as affected by as man many thousands of years ago.

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Great Book!
By Amazon Customer
Great to read. Her book on Mithridates is really worth reading too.

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Funny reading
By Jesus Mateu Rubio
This book shows an interesting point of view about biological and chemical warfare in Ancient World but it seems avoid the experimental metode to confirm or to deny its statements about the issue. I would recommend it for readers interested in history either graduates or amateurs, but I wouldn't for scientific readers.

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