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

An examination of the uses of explosive traps in a military context and the measures that have been taken to negate their effects and to neutralize them.

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 le...