But British Hold Their Lines. Both Sides Planning Strategy for 1916. Special to The Great War Project (17-20 December) On December 19th precisely a century ago, the Germans use phosgene gas on the battlefield for the first time. Phosgene is ten times more lethal than the chlorine gas used up until now. Its target: The…
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A WORLD WAR ON TWELVE FRONTS.
by Mike Shuster
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…