Innocence Slaughtered
Gas and the Transformation of Warfare and Society
Distributed for Uniform Press
272 pages
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illustrated in color throughout
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6 3/4 x 9 1/4
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© 2016
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Table of Contents
Contents
Author Biographies
Foreword by Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General, OPCW
Maps
Introduction by Jean Pascal Zanders
Jean Pascal Zanders: The Road to Hague
Olivier Lepick: Towards Total War: Langemarck, 22 April 1915
Luc Vandeweyer: The Belgian Army and the Gas Attack on 22 April 1515
Dominick Dendooven: 22 April 1915 — Eyewitness Accounts of the First Gas Attack
Julian Putkowski: Toxic Shock: The British Army’s Reaction to German Poison Gas During the Second Battle of Ypres
David Omissi: The Indian Army at the Second Battle of Ypres
Bert Heyvaert: Phosphene in the Ypres Salient 19 December 1915
Gerard Oram: A War on Terror: Gas, British Morale, and Reporting the War in Wales
Wolfgang Wietzker: Gas Warfare in 1915 and the German Press
Peter van den Dungen: Civil Resistance to Chemical Warfare in the First World War
Leo van Bergen and Maartje Abbenhuis: Man-monkey, Monkey-man: Neutrality and the discussions about the ‘inhumanity’ of poison gas in the Netherlands and International Committee of the Red Cross
Jean Pascal Zanders: The Road to Geneva
Foreword by Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General, OPCW
Maps
Introduction by Jean Pascal Zanders
Jean Pascal Zanders: The Road to Hague
Olivier Lepick: Towards Total War: Langemarck, 22 April 1915
Luc Vandeweyer: The Belgian Army and the Gas Attack on 22 April 1515
Dominick Dendooven: 22 April 1915 — Eyewitness Accounts of the First Gas Attack
Julian Putkowski: Toxic Shock: The British Army’s Reaction to German Poison Gas During the Second Battle of Ypres
David Omissi: The Indian Army at the Second Battle of Ypres
Bert Heyvaert: Phosphene in the Ypres Salient 19 December 1915
Gerard Oram: A War on Terror: Gas, British Morale, and Reporting the War in Wales
Wolfgang Wietzker: Gas Warfare in 1915 and the German Press
Peter van den Dungen: Civil Resistance to Chemical Warfare in the First World War
Leo van Bergen and Maartje Abbenhuis: Man-monkey, Monkey-man: Neutrality and the discussions about the ‘inhumanity’ of poison gas in the Netherlands and International Committee of the Red Cross
Jean Pascal Zanders: The Road to Geneva
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