Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I (Modern War Studies)

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700605444
• ISBN13: 9780700605446
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"