Yellow Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yellow Rain write by Mai Der Vang. This book was released on 2021-09-21. Yellow Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam War In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United States abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos starting in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as “yellow rain,” caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths. These reports prompted an investigation into allegations that a chemical biological weapon had been used against the Hmong in breach of international treaties. A Cold War scandal erupted, wrapped in partisan debate around chemical arms development versus control. And then, to the world’s astonishment, American scientists argued that yellow rain was the feces of honeybees defecating en masse—still held as the widely accepted explanation. The truth of what happened to the Hmong, to those who experienced and suffered yellow rain, has been ignored and discredited. Integrating archival research and declassified documents, Yellow Rain calls out the erasure of a history, the silencing of a people who at the time lacked the capacity and resources to defend and represent themselves. In poems that sing and lament, that contend and question, Vang restores a vital narrative in danger of being lost, and brilliantly explores what it means to have access to the truth and how marginalized groups are often forbidden that access.
The Yellow Rain
The Yellow Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Yellow Rain write by Julio Llamazares. This book was released on 2003. The Yellow Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ainielle is a village high in the Spanish Pyrenees. Its houses now stand deserted - most of them in ruins. Its last surviving inhabitant, an old man at death's door, lingers on and as the yellow rain of autumn leaves fall around him, he recalls the life he lived.
Yellow Rain: Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare
Yellow Rain: Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yellow Rain: Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare write by Sterling Seagrave. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Yellow Rain: Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The use of poison gas - chlorine, phosgene, mustard - during World War I forever changed the face of modern warfare. Yet poison gas, and its far deadlier successors, nerve agents like sarin and soman, remained oddly absent from the world stage during World War II. The possibility that poison or nerve gas could be used spurred the development of more and deadlier toxins as insurance against other countries taking the same action - the production of which poisons continued unabated even after the war ended, providing the threat beneath the uneasy stalemate of the Cold War. The United States was left with stockpiles of earlier iterations of gases held in arsenals around the world and nothing to use them for, especially with such weapons banned by international law. But while the world on the surface seemed content to keep their deadly super-poisons locked away, whispers from around the globe in the latter half of the twentieth century suggested that this was not the case at all. Since 1979, rumours of a poison hundreds of times deadlier than nerve gas leaked out of the war-zones of Laos, Cambodia, and Afghanistan, born on the lips and bodies of survivors who watched their friends and families die in excruciating pain. The gas was known as 'yellow rain' and, like all chemical weapons, it is banned by every international and moral law. For years the connections between the sites of distribution were not made - too far apart geographically and in time, with no single known chemical capable of causing the symptoms, each instance was written off as a tragedy without any real answers. Sterling Seagrave's investigation into yellow rain takes him across the world as, over the course of several years, he pieces together fragments of information to finally reveal the origin of the super-toxin for the first time. Seagrave expands his analysis of T2, one of the most lethal poisons ever invented, and created from a virulent spore found on grain, into a terrifyingly readable survey of the silent but steady growth of chemical arsenals worldwide. Praise for Yellow Rain 'His story is a terrifying one...he does not confine his investigation to the Russians alone. He is equally critical of American deceits over chemical and biological weapons.' - The Times Praise for Sterling Seagrave 'compulsively readable' - International Herald Tribune 'Fast-paced and jammed with racy details' - New York Times Book Review Sterling Seagrave is an American historian and investigative journalist whose work has appeared in many major newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, Time, and Smithsonian. He grew up in Asia and the United States. He is also the author of The Soong Dynasty, The Marcos Dynasty, and Gold Warriors.
Red Roses, Yellow Rain
Red Roses, Yellow Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Roses, Yellow Rain write by Marrigje de Maar. This book was released on 2011. Red Roses, Yellow Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Trained sociologist and photographer Marrigje de Maar (born 1944) seeks out those magical households in which families have come together for generations--where life has "worn itself into" a house. Over the course of five trips to China, she photographed housing in Chinese communes that had been scheduled for demolition, finding within them a surprising diversity of types and uses of classical living spaces.
The Boy in the Yellow Raincoat
The Boy in the Yellow Raincoat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boy in the Yellow Raincoat write by Jamie M. Miller. This book was released on 2015-09-03. The Boy in the Yellow Raincoat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Boy in the Yellow Raincoat is Jamie M. Miller's debut children's book, introducing a special boy who very much dislikes the rain and how he overcomes his fears associated with it. The Boy in the Yellow Raincoat is recommended for Pre-K to First grade aged children to assist is raising awareness and understanding of Sensory Processing Disorders through vivid, colorful pictures and story-telling.
