A Strange and Formidable Weapon: British Responses to World War I Poison Gas Medical History Blond French girls throwing flowers

Blond French girls throwing flowers and flirting in German with boisterous American troops

After Serbia outgunned the polyglot empire in a humiliating defeat

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with the Meuse-Argonne Offensive proving the pivotal point in the branch’s fortunes

Given to my mom after his death in 1971

A Strange and Formidable Weapon: British Responses to World War I Poison Gas Medical History Blond French girls throwing flowersDescription By Prof. Marion Leslie Girard Hardcover The advent of poison gas in World War I shocked Britons at all levels of society, yet by the end of the conflict their nation was a leader in chemical warfare. Although never used on the home front, poison gas affected almost every segment of British society physically, mentally, or emotionally, proving to be an armament of total war. Through cartoons, military records, novels, treaties, and other