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

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Historians of the First World War have steadily dismissed the important role of poison gas in the battles of the Western Front. In No Place to Run, on the other hand, 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 lots of soldiers were exposed to this new chemical plague.

Cook uses fascinating primary sources ― diaries, letters, reminiscences, published memoirs, and the official archival record ― to illustrate the horror of gas warfare for the average trench soldier. As the first chlorine clouds rolled across the fields all the way through the second one Battle at Ypres, soldiers were forced to stuff urine-soaked handkerchiefs in their mouths in an effort to continue to exist. As the gas war evolved, mustard gas plagued the soldiers on the front as it lay active in mud and snow for weeks on end.

There was once no escape from the pervasive nature of poison gas. Entering the dug-outs where they slept, gas attacked men when they were least able. No Place to Run poses a challenging re-examination of the function of gas warfare in the First World War, including its important role in delivering victory in the campaigns of 1918 and its curious postwar legacy, and will be of interest both to historians and military buffs.

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