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Usually referred to as "Huzel and Huang" because the title is too long.
Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D Clark
Ignition is a narrative story, not a textbook. It describes the merits and development of liquid propellants.
Nowadays, it seems that everyone and their grandmother knows that LOX/RP-1 is the best propellant combo for cheap space boosters, and N2O4/UDMH is the way to go for storable propellants. But how did we figure this out? At the beginning of liquid rocketry, back in the 1950s, there was a wonderful, magical period; a time before OSHA cared if you blew yourself up; a time before the EPA cared if you blasted hundreds of pounds a second of mercury into the atmosphere; a time when one could casually order a tanker truck full of liquid fluorine; generally a time before anyone knew what the fuck they were doing. In this milieu, a cadre of chemists and engineers tried burning pretty much every chemical they could get their hands on in a quest for more performant propellants. Ignition tells their story.
Solid Motors
Propellants and Explosives: Thermochemical Aspects of Combustion by Naminosuke Kubota
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