{"title":"Paul Chrystal","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Chrystal offers compelling explorations into the realms of history and military affairs, delving into topics from bioterrorism to ancient wonders. His works provide detailed insights into complex subjects, making intricate events accessible and engaging for readers with an interest in historical and military narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on both contemporary and broader historical themes, Chrystal’s writing blends thorough research with clear storytelling, appealing to those fascinated by the intersections of warfare, science, and cultural history. His books invite readers to consider the impact of past events on modern understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"miracula-by-paul-chrystal-9781836390497","title":"Miracula","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth humorous and shocking, \u003ci\u003eMiracula\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Greece and Rome that have rarely been retold in English. It explores 'the incredible' as presented by little-known classical writers like Callimachus and Phlegon of Tralles. However, it offers much more: familiar authors such as Herodotus and Cicero often couldn't resist relating sensational, tabloid-worthy tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also tackles ancient examples of topics still relevant today, such as racism, slavery and misogyny. The pieces are by turns absorbing, enchanting, curious, unbelievable, comical, astonishing, disturbing, and occasionally just plain daft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn entertaining and sometimes lurid collection, this book is perfect for all those fascinated by the stranger aspects of the classical world, history enthusiasts, and anyone interested in classical history, society and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47420742271212,"sku":"9781836390497","price":59.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71OJx1FR1oL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774394083"},{"product_id":"bioterrorism-and-biological-warfare-by-paul-chrystal-9781399090803","title":"Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis important, disturbing, and timely book focuses on the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat bioterrorism poses in an increasingly unpredictable and volatile future for the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor context, it traces developments from the earliest primitive but effective days of infectious rams, poison-tipped arrows, and plague-infected corpses used as toxic, disease-spreading projectiles, to the twenty-first-century industrial-scale weaponization of biomedicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Chrystal shows how biological weapons and acts of bioterrorism are especially effective at instilling terror, panic, death, famine, and economic ruin on a large scale, shredding public confidence in governments and civilization itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the disaffected, lethal biological agents are comparatively easy to manufacture and obtain, and they have the benefit of being almost invisible, easy, and quick to administer in lethal quantities through a variety of discreet delivery systems. Just what the terrorist wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe explore the sinister connection between the industrial-scale proliferation of biological weaponry by state actors and the greater opportunities these growing bio-arsenals give to the increasingly scientific-minded and determined terrorist to manufacture his or her weapon of choice, taking advantage also of the state-of-the-art sophisticated delivery systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe epilogue analyses the concerted but groundless 2022-2023 disinformation campaign conducted by Russia, with support from China, relating to the claim that public health facilities in Ukraine are 'secret U.S.-funded biolabs', purportedly developing biological weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBioterrorism and Biological Warfare\u003c\/em\u003e is authored by Paul Chrystal, who has written a number of books on conflict and military history. His works include the best-selling \u003cem\u003eBritish Army of the Rhine: The BAOR 1945-1993\u003c\/em\u003e (2018); \u003cem\u003eNorthern Ireland - The Troubles from the Provos to the Det 1968-1998\u003c\/em\u003e (2018); \u003cem\u003eWomen at War in the Ancient World\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), \u003cem\u003eRoman Military Disasters\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); \u003cem\u003eWar in Greek Mythology\u003c\/em\u003e (2020) and \u003cem\u003eRome: Republic into Empire - The Civil Wars\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), all published by Pen \u0026amp; Sword.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is also the author of \u003cem\u003eA History of Britain in 100 Objects\u003c\/em\u003e (2022); \u003cem\u003eWars and Battles of the Roman Republic\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) and \u003cem\u003eWars and Battles of Ancient Greece\u003c\/em\u003e (2018). His \u003cem\u003eBiowarfare and Bioterrorism: Disease as a Weapon of War\u003c\/em\u003e is due for publication in 2023. See his full list at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.paulchrystal.com\"\u003ewww.paulchrystal.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bookreps NZ Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47900290679020,"sku":"9781399090803","price":79.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399090803-bioterrorism-and-biological-warfare.jpg?v=1783397789"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/paul-chrystal.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}