"Seeking primary sources on gas attacks" Topic
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Wealdmaster | 09 Jul 2020 9:54 a.m. PST |
I'm looking for any books which might contain first hand accounts of the impact of gas attacks. I'm actually using this for another presentation not related to wargaming on the origins of organo phosphate chemicals. I've got a decent Great War Library but it pales in comparison to other periods. |
Wackmole9 | 09 Jul 2020 6:28 p.m. PST |
HI I would start with World War I Gas Warfare Tactics and Equipment ELITE 150 Author: Simon Jones Illustrator: Richard Hook ISBN: 9781846031519 |
Dan Cyr | 10 Jul 2020 1:27 a.m. PST |
Sadly, I'm old enough to have visited my grandparents' neighbor who lived across the street from them in Pepin, WI during the 1960s. He had volunteered shortly after getting married, trained and went to France in 1918 where he was gassed (mustard), suffered badly and was sent home to live out his life with a very small pension, his wife having to take care of him and support him from that time until his death in the late 1960s. They lived in a small tar paper home where he sat up or laid sitting up unless being helped to the bathroom, his lungs being so damaged that he was always gasping, desperate for air and in danger of drowning in the fluids filling his lungs. A lovely man, a dedicated wife that worked long hours doing house work, cleaning, washing clothes, whatever she could find, to keep them alive. No children, just the insides of the house as he could not leave. I mention this just as an aside that histories of gas use usually don't make it real enough to their readers. Even Hitler, who'd been gassed and injured, for all his insanity and evil nature, held back from using gas in WWII. |
Wealdmaster | 11 Jul 2020 8:37 a.m. PST |
I appreciate these comments. Especially the silent suffering that goes on in our society by veterans and victims of alternative forms of warfare. |
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