Theo Emery

Author of Hellfire Boys

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Politico

Nov. 12, 2018, “How World War I Became the First Modern War of Science”

Smithsonian

Nov. 5, 2018, “How Three Doughboys Experienced the Last Days of World War I”

New Yorker

April 22, 2015, “The Chemical-Weapons Revival”
Nov. 6, 2014, “Sir Walter Raleigh and the Uncertain Future of Space Travel”
June 9, 2015, “Suicide by Chemical Weapon”

The New York Times

Nov. 10, 2018, “The Chemists’ War”
Oct. 27, 2017, “North Korea and the Threat of Chemical Warfare”
Aug. 10, 2015, “The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found?”
March 10, 2014, “Washington Businessman Pleads Guilty Over Illegal Contributions”
Oct. 15, 2013, “A Maryland Hill’s Prehistoric Secret”
Nov. 29, 2012, “A House in Washington May Solve a 1918 Mystery”
Nov. 11, 2012, “Construction Site Offers Fleeting Glimpse of the Civil War Past”
July 6, 2012, “Killed by Thousands, Varmint Will Never Quit”
July 5, 2012, “Fraud Case Shows Holes in Exchange of Fuel Credits”
May 4, 2012, “Map’s Hidden Marks Illuminate and Deepen Mystery of Lost Colony”
March 19, 2012, “At Home, Asking How ‘Our Bobby’ Became War Crime Suspect” (contributor)
March 18, 2012, “Zeroing In on Mystery of an Old Site Called Hades”
Dec. 22, 2011, “Fixing Up Embassy, Congo Republic Raises Hackles in Capital”
Dec. 1, 2011, “A Big Uranium Deposit, and a Big Debate on Mining It”
June 10, 2009, “Debate Erupts Over Building Plan by Virginia Muslim School”
July 15, 2007, “In Nashville, a Street Gang Emerges in a Kurdish Enclave”
March 12, 2007, “Where Tobacco Ruled, Smoking Ban Gains Ground”

The Boston Globe

June 22, 2011, “Kerry, McCain push role in Libya”
June 21, 2011, “Abortion foes’ pledge is snag for Romney”
June 20, 2011, “Tierney, Frank frown on Obama nominee”
June 13, 2011, “Bill add-ons draw critics’ comparison to earmarks”
May 16, 2011, “GE’s ‘green’ engine offers new chance with military”
May 6, 2011, “A local push for military to wear US sneakers“
Oct. 15, 2006, “Tenn. home stills fire up for new home brew”

Time/Time.com

Feb. 4, 2010, “Why didn’t HIG Question the Undiebomber?”
Jan. 7, 2010, “How Should America Try Terror Suspects?”
Dec. 10, 2009, “The FBI Probe: What Went Wrong at Fort Hood?”
Oct. 7, 2009, “Gay Weddings in Washington by Winter?”
Oct. 31, 2009, “The Global Antitrust Battle Over Google’s Library”
Oct. 24, 2009, “It’s Official: The ATF and FBI Don’t Get Along”
Aug. 7, 2009, “Will Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Reform Help Current Cons?”
June 19, 2009, “Iraqi Immigrants: Refugees in a Land of No Opportunity”

Washington Post

Aug. 7, 2006, “End of a Park Fit for a King”
March 27, 2006, “More Family Cemeteries Dying Away in the South”

Alicia Patterson Foundation

“Downrange in D.C. ”
“History is Repeating Itself:” A Century of Chemical Warfare”
“The House Over Hades”
“The Scientists Who Created America’s War Gases“

"Though squarely a crackling history, “Hellfire Boys” is also a relevant primer on the past 100 years and on a kind of total warmaking that continues to haunt us — sometimes from another hemisphere, sometimes in our own back yard....Emery’s reporting is vast and meticulous, and his storytelling is focused and clean."

―WASHINGTON POST

2017-12-29T03:11:48+00:00

―WASHINGTON POST

"Though squarely a crackling history, “Hellfire Boys” is also a relevant primer on the past 100 years and on a kind of total warmaking that continues to haunt us — sometimes from another hemisphere, sometimes in our own back yard....Emery’s reporting is vast and meticulous, and his storytelling is focused and clean."
http://theoemery.com/testimonials/washington-post/
"Moving crisply between stateside turf wars and battlefront combat, this well-written and well-researched slice of history will appeal to virtually any history or war buff." (Starred review)

―LIBRARY JOURNAL

2017-11-03T23:34:11+00:00

―LIBRARY JOURNAL

"Moving crisply between stateside turf wars and battlefront combat, this well-written and well-researched slice of history will appeal to virtually any history or war buff." (Starred review)
http://theoemery.com/testimonials/library-journal/
"Refusing to allow our modern revulsion of chemical weapons (however well-founded) to shape his extraordinary narrative, Emery—like all good historians—is determined to let the era of his subject speak for itself."

―HAMPTON SIDES, New York Times bestselling author of In the Kingdom of Ice, Ghost Soldiers, Hellhound on His Trail, and Blood and Thunder

2017-10-09T20:38:16+00:00

―HAMPTON SIDES, New York Times bestselling author of In the Kingdom of Ice, Ghost Soldiers, Hellhound on His Trail, and Blood and Thunder

"Refusing to allow our modern revulsion of chemical weapons (however well-founded) to shape his extraordinary narrative, Emery—like all good historians—is determined to let the era of his subject speak for itself."
http://theoemery.com/testimonials/hampton-sides/
"A fascinating and deeply researched account of how America reinvented its military—and itself—in its first modern global war. Theo Emery combines science, history, and character-driven drama to illuminate some of the darkest aspects of our national past."

―BEVERLY GAGE, author of The Day Wall Street Exploded and Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University

2017-10-09T20:37:06+00:00

―BEVERLY GAGE, author of The Day Wall Street Exploded and Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University

"A fascinating and deeply researched account of how America reinvented its military—and itself—in its first modern global war. Theo Emery combines science, history, and character-driven drama to illuminate some of the darkest aspects of our national past."
http://theoemery.com/testimonials/beverly-gage/
"Even military buffs will learn from this intensely researched, often unnerving account.... Readers will share Emery's lack of nostalgia for this half-forgotten weapon, but they will admire this satisfying combination of technical background, battlefield fireworks, biographies of colorful major figures, and personal anecdotes from individual soldiers."

―KIRKUS

2017-10-09T20:36:29+00:00

―KIRKUS

"Even military buffs will learn from this intensely researched, often unnerving account.... Readers will share Emery's lack of nostalgia for this half-forgotten weapon, but they will admire this satisfying combination of technical background, battlefield fireworks, biographies of colorful major figures, and personal anecdotes from individual soldiers."
http://theoemery.com/testimonials/kirkus/
"Journalist Emery offers a useful and absorbing reminder that, a century earlier, it was a different weapon of mass destruction that terrified both soldiers and civilians... This is a timely and often unsettling examination of a previously well-hidden government program."

―BOOKLIST

2017-10-09T20:36:05+00:00

―BOOKLIST

"Journalist Emery offers a useful and absorbing reminder that, a century earlier, it was a different weapon of mass destruction that terrified both soldiers and civilians... This is a timely and often unsettling examination of a previously well-hidden government program."
http://theoemery.com/testimonials/booklist/

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