TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cassar,George H.
TI  - Trial by gas: the British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres 
SN  - 9781612346915
AV  - D542 .T753 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Lincoln, Nebraska
PB  - Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Army
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ypres, 2nd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1915
KW  - Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
KW  - War use
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Ypres, the Salient and the defending V Corps Divisions --; Weapon of horror --; The withdrawal and close of the Battle of St. Julien, 1-4 May --; Interlude, 4-7 May --; The Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, 8 May --; The Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, 9-12 May --; The Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, 13 May --; The The Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge, 24-25 May --; Retrospect; 2; b
N2  - World War I has long captured the macabre imagination for the seemingly willful manner in which nations sent their young men to die in droves while fighting over essentially the same patch of land for four long years. The vision of those senseless deaths becomes even harsher and more depraved when we consider how many soldiers were killed by poison gas. In May 1915 the long and bloody Second Battle of Ypres gained notoriety for the participants' use of poison gas, the first time the weapon had been used in battle. With both sides realizing the importance of victory in Ypres, moral consideratio
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