Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, (Paperback)

from jcbrunner

A great title but a buggy execution. The author is neither a writer nor a doctor nor a historian, but a bugman. His specialty is the least important (and the creatures themselves are not given much space too) for the project. The writing is bad, the history filled with mistakes and the book focus...

from TomVeal

Insects as weapons of war struck me as a fascinating, offbeat topic, so I ordered this book. Alas, it consists of an uncritical plucking of anecdotes from secondary sources, retold in a moralizing tone. If you can believe that the Roman Empire's honey supply was depleted by the excessive hurling ...

from tjsjohanna

This book is full of interesting information on the use of bugs as weapons of war. From such low-tech methods as chucking beehives at the invading army to releasing insects infected with deadly diseases, this book covers it all. At times, the book was a little slow reading, but Mr. Lockwood makes...