Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys

Auteur

Michael Freemantle is a chemist. He is the former senior correspondent for "Chemical & Engineering News," the weekly magazine of the American Chemical Society, and he has written numerous books on the history of chemistry.

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Looks at the role chemistry played in WWI, from bullets to bombs, gas and first aid.

Résumé
From bombs to bullets, poison gas to anaesthetics, khaki to cordite, chemistry was truly the alchemy of the First World War.