Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I

by Donald Richter

Book Overview

They were sometimes the butt of jokes, the "comical chemical corporals." Officially they were the British Special Brigade, sent to retaliate against German chemical warfare, selected, as one of their members said, almost willy-nilly. "They wanted chemists," a young recruit later recalled, ". . . so I looked up the formula for water and told them it was H2O and I was in."

Although the Brigade itself has received little attention since its disbandment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700611134
• ISBN13: 9780700611133
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"