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BL
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1018913
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b773283
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Girard, Marion
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| Title & Author
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A strange and formidable weapon : : British responses to World War I poison gas /\ Marion Girard.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in war, society and the military
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1 online resource (x, 279 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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080322205X
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: 1281241458
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: 6611241450
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: 9780803222052
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: 9781281241450
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: 9786611241452
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0803222238
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9780803222236
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| Notes
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 2002.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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 sources, Marion Girard examines the varied ways different sectors of British society viewed chemical warfare, from the industrialists who promoted their toxic weapons while maintaining private contro.
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Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous-- War use-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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World War, 1914-1918-- Chemical warfare-- Great Britain.
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Chemical warfare.
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Chemischer Krieg
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Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous-- War use.
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HISTORY-- Military-- Weapons.
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HISTORY-- Military-- World War I.
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Öffentliche Meinung
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Weltkrieg
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Chemical Warfare-- history.
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Gas Poisoning.
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History, 20th Century.
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World War I.
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United Kingdom.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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| Dewey Classification
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940.4/0941
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| LC Classification
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D639.C39G57 2008eb
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2010 H-580
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QV 11 FA1
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