The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War
Oxford/ New York: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; olive dust jacket, illustrated, mylar cover; xiv, 415 pp; illustrated in bw throughout. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear. Binding is tight.). Item #184492
ISBN: 9780198581420
"The introduction of chemical warfare during the First World War was a major event in the history of military technology. It not only posed an unusual challenge to military thinking of the day, which was largely conventional and wholly unfamiliar with science; it also created a heated moral controversy surrounding the new weapon that did not discriminate between soldiers and civilians. This study explores the military role of chemical warfare as well as its effects on people, industries and administration on both sides." - publisher's description. Contents: Personal introduction -- Forerunners in fact and fiction -- The chlorine cloud -- The Allied reaction -- Phosgene -- Chemists at war -- The organization of chemical warfare -- New weapons, new tactics -- 1918, reality and imagination -- Gas casualties -- Was gas a failure? Appendix: statistical note on gas shells and casualties in the BEF -- The aftermath. Appendix: articles 169-172 of the Treaty of Versailles.
OCLC: 12051072
Price: $150.00