Gassed: British Chemical Warfare Experiments on Humans at Porton Down

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 ... Read more