Grounding the history of modern warfare: An extended book review of Peter Thompson's The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
Abstract Ever since Germany's use of chlorine gas on the battlefields of Flanders during the First World War, modern warfare has become synonymous with gas warfare, its images an iconographic shorthand for a detached, humiliating, and dishonourable death, and the gas mask a modern symbol of mem...
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Wiley-VCH
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Natural Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ntls.20230021 |