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A strange and formidable weapon : British responses to World War I poison gas / Marion Girard.

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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, pro...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Girard, Marion (Author)
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Series:Studies in war, society, and the military.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Chemical warfare > Great Britain.
Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous > War use > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous > Toxicology.
Chemical warfare.
Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous > War use.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The political challenge : descent to atrocities?
  • The army's experience : new weapons, new soldiers
  • The scientific divide : chemists versus physicians
  • Whose business is it? Dilemmas in the gas industry
  • Gas as a symbol : visual images of chemical weapons in the popular press
  • The reestablishment of the gas taboo and the public debate : will gas destroy the world?

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