Bat Bomb: World War II's Other Secret Weapon by Couffer, Jack

Austin, University of Texas Press, 1992, hardcover, ix-252 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket, light edge nicks, tiny abrasion to rear panel near spine, in new Brodart sleeve. An account of Project X-Ray, a WWII plan to end the war with Japan using bats equipped with tiny incendiary bombs, to be released over Japan's largest cities and upon roosting in the common wood and paper buildings, start millions of small fires. A screwball plan with an oddball cast of characters that just might have worked. Illustrated with 18 pages of black-&-white photographs. Appended: References, Index.