No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War

by Tim Cook

Book Overview

Historians of the First World War have often dismissed the important role of poison gas in the battles of the Western Front. In No Place to Run , however, Tim Cook shows that the serious threat of gas did not disappear with the introduction of gas masks. By 1918, gas shells were used by all armies to deluge the battlefield, and many soldiers were exposed to this new chemical plague. Cook uses fascinating primary sources -- diaries, letters, reminiscences,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774807407
• ISBN13: 9780774807401
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

a brilliant technological study

This book shows, stage by stage and step by step, how the soldiers of the Great War adapted to the new killing techniques that they faced. This book truly places the fighting man of the First World War as an equal of the working man of the 'Twenties. The man who faced newer and deadlier chemicals in wartime was the same worker who faced the "Brave New World" of the 'Twenties. This work truly shows how it was the working man's ethos that won the war.