Rob Evans
House of Stratus, London, 2000
This is a long (over 400 pages with notes and appendices), minutely detailed account of experiments at Porton Down from the First World War onwards. The story is pretty much what you would expect: thousands of British squaddies were persuaded to volunteer for the experiments, most apparently conned in one way or another by false accounts of what would be done to them when they got there. And when some of the soldier subjects got ill, began complaining and trying to find out what had been done to them, the traditional MOD cover-up was put into place. Another shoddy story in a long line of shoddy MOD stories.
This is the first study of its kind; and, given the detail Evans has presented, possibly the last. As the pioneer in this field Evans was undoubtedly justified in the minutiae which he has presented; but this reader would have preferred a text more closely edited to remove some of the repetitive detail.