Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Battalion of Death Made Up of Russian Women. HISTORY OF THE WAR 67
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68 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK upon the lungs of the men who breatliedit was terrible. Of heavy specific gravity,it clung close to the ground for hours afterexpelled from the shells. There was onlyone weakness in gas warfare, and that wasthat a favorable wind had to be awaited, orthe destroying chemical would be blownback over the trenches of those who hadsent it forth. Once inhaled, the gas causesexcruciating agonies, and if death does notresult, it leaves the victim in a crippledcondition, causing tuberculosis or other ail-ments. In the London Times, a British soldierwho had witnessed one of the first gas at-tacks near Ypres, wrote: Utterly unprepared for what was tocome, the French divisions gazed for ashort while spellbound at the strange phe-nomenon they saw coming slowly towardthem. Like some liquid, the heavy coloredvapor poured relentlessly into the trenches,filling them, and passed on. For a fewseconds nothing happened; the sweet-smell-ing stuff merely tickled their nostrils; theyfa

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