A strange and formidable weapon : British responses to World War I poison gas / Marion Girard.

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

x, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Revision of the author's disseration (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The political challenge : descent to atrocities? -- The army's experience : new weapons, new soldiers -- The scientific divide : chemists versus physicians -- Whose business is it? Dilemmas in the gas industry -- Gas as a symbol : visual images of chemical weapons in the popular press -- The reestablishment of the gas taboo and the public debate : will gas destroy the world?