A New More Poisonous Gas. Fighting from the English Channel to the Caucasus; Lithuania to the Persian Gulf. Special for The Great War Project (17-19 October) Several significant developments in the war on these days a century ago – in France, in Serbia, and in Italy. In Champagne in northern France, more than eight hundred…
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A NEW TERRIFYING WEAPON – GAS
by Mike Shuster
On Sunny Breezy Day, A Grey-Green Cloud of Death; German Gas Attack Leaves Thousands Choking, Fleeing the Battlefield Special to The Great War Project (21-22 April) “It was on April 22,” writes historian Martin Gilbert, “that gas was used for the first time in the First World War.” The attack takes place in the evening,…
ON THE WESTERN FRONT, GERMAN GAS ATTACK IMMINENT
by Mike Shuster
British and French Get Ample Warning; Make No Preparations Special to The Great War Project (14-16 April) In these days a century ago, a German prisoner of war tells his British captors that the German army is stockpiling thousands of canisters of chlorine gas at the Belgian town of Ypres. Both sides are keenly aware…