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Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys

Michael Freemantle
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alchemy
American Chemical Society
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bombs
bullets
camouflage
Category1=Non-Fiction
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chemistry
chemists' war
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cordite
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explosives
fertilizer
first aid
First World War
gas
Germany
gunmetal
Language_English
life-saving medicines
lyddite
military history
mustard gas|phosgene
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poison gas
Price_€10 to €20
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Queen's University Belfast
Shell Chemistry
softlaunch
strategy
The Great War
troops
World War I
World War One
WWI

Product details

  • ISBN 9780750953757
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Nov 2013
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys! reveals for the first time the true extent of how chemistry rather than military strategy determined the shape, duration and outcome of the First World War. Chemistry was not only a destructive instrument of war but also protected troops, and healed the sick and wounded. From bombs to bullets, poison gas to anaesthetics, khaki to cordite, chemistry was truly the alchemy of the First World War. Michael Freemantle explores its dangers and its healing potential, revealing how the arms race was also a race for chemistry to the extent that Germany's thirst for the chemicals needed to make explosives deprived the nation of fertilizers and nearly starved the nation. He answers question such as: What is guncotton? What is lyddite? What is mustard gas? What is phosgene? What is gunmetal? This is a true picture of the horrors of the 'Chemists' War'.

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