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Control # 1 hbl99075967
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Date 5 20220208130016.0
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LC Card 10    $a 2017942376
ISBN 20    $a9780316264105
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LC Call 50 00 $aUG447$b.E54 2017
Dewey Class 82 04 $a358/.34097309041$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aEmery, Theo,$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aHellfire boys :$bthe birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the race for the world's deadliest weapons /$cTheo Emery.
Title:Varint 246 30 $aBirth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the race for the world's deadliest weapons
Title:Varint 246 $aBirth of the United States Chemical Warfare Service and the race for the world's deadliest weapons
Edition 250    $aFirst edition.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown and Company,$c2017.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axxi, 535 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits, facsimile ;$c25 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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Abstract 520    $aTraces the actions of the "Hellfire Battalion," a group of American engineers who were trained in gas warfare and were sent to the front lines in France to launch multiple assaults against the Germans.
Abstract 520    $aIn 1915, when German forces executed the first successful gas attack of World War I, the boundaries of warfare were forever changed. In 1917 the development of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service, along with the burgeoning Bureau of Mines, assembled research and military units devoted solely to chemical weaponry, outfitting regiments with hastily made gas-resistant uniforms and recruiting scientists and engineers from around the world into the fight. Emery shows how World War I quickly spiraled into a chemists' war, one led by the companies of young American engineers-turned-soldiers who would soon become known as the "Hellfire Boys."
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 443-519) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction: January 5, 1993 -- Prologue -- Part I. Catalyst. Holy week ; An American University ; Diabolical instruments ; Technical men ; Amos and Goliath ; "Fiendish work" -- Part II. Flash point. "A hotter fire" ; Over there ; "A constant menace" ; "Science and horror" ; "He who gasses last, gasses best" -- Part III. Retort. First gas and flame ; The Meuse and the mousetrap ; "All to the mustard" ; "War to the knife" ; "Fight the devil" ; "The devil's perfume"
Subj:Corp 610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bChemical Warfare Service$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xChemical warfare.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aChemical warfare$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aChemical warfare$xResearch$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zUnited States.