John Singer Sargent's 1919 painting "Gassed" remains one of the war ... Mustard gas was used by the Italians in Abyssinia in 1936 and, although neither side deployed gas in open combat during ...

The first world war saw the first widespread ... who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning,” the British nurse Vera ...

Apart from machinery, humans invented another way to kill one another, deadly and silent. World War I was the first instance of toxic gasses (mostly mustard gas) used as a weapon of mass destruction.

As the title implies, the author spends much time on the use of poison gas in the war and the first chapter discusses the entire "problem" of discussing its use. This was both mustard gas bombs ...