JONES Edgar

Terror weapons : the British experience of gas and its treatment in the First World War / Edgar Jones. - 2014

In the great war toxic gas caused high rates of casualties rather than deaths and it is this, together with uncertainty and surprise, which is said to have contributed to the damaging impact of such weapons. This article considers how military medicine coped with both physical and psychological effects drawig on experiences learned from shell-shock.


FIRST WORLD WAR--CHEMICAL WEAPONS