Malice Aforethought: A History of Booby Traps from the First World War to Vietnam

Author: Ian Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century this new technology was harnessed to produce increasingly deadly and malicious types of explosives in the form of booby traps, mines, delayed-action devices and mobile charges. Designed, constructed or adopted to kill or injure, these lethal mechanisms function when a person disturbs or approaches a seemingly harmless object or performs an apparently safe act. In other instances...Read more