Chemistry professor Louis Fieser of Harvard oversaw the bat bomb as well as some more practical incendiary weapon developments (such as napalm) during World War II. He published a book in 1964 about his wartime research including the bat bomb. You can see the full thing here:

The Scientific Method: A Personal Account of Unusual Projects in War and in Peace

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/the_scienti...

See in particular chapter 13, "Bat Bombs."

The Wikipedia article is also worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb