Trial by gas : the British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres

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Label

Trial by gas : the British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres

Title remainder

the British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres

Statement of responsibility

George H. Cassar

Title variation

British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres

Creator

• Cassar, George H

Subject

• Belgium -- Ieper
• Electronic books
• Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous -- War use
• Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous -- War use | History -- 20th century
• Great Britain, Army
• Great Britain, Army -- History -- 20th century
• 1900-1999
• HISTORY -- Military | World War I
• History
• Ypres, 2nd Battle of (Ieper, Belgium : 1915)
• Ypres, 2nd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1915
• HISTORY -- Europe -- Western

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

World War I has long captured the macabre imagination for the seemingly willful manner in which nations sent their young men to die in droves while fighting over essentially the same patch of land for four long years. The vision of those senseless deaths becomes even harsher and more depraved when we consider how many soldiers were killed by poison gas. In May 1915 the long and bloody Second Battle of Ypres gained notoriety for the participants' use of poison gas, the first time the weapon had been used in battle. With both sides realizing the importance of victory in Ypres, moral consideratio

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YDXCP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography