Hellfire boys
Subtitle: the birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the race for the world's deadliest weapons
By: Theo Emery
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9780316264105
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service; Chemical warfare; Research; United States; History
Other titles: Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the race for the world's deadliest weapons; Birth of the United States Chemical Warfare Service and the race for the world's deadliest weapons
Description: Traces 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-519) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: January 5, 1993; title: Prologue; title: Part I. Catalyst.  Holy week ; An American University ; Diabolical instruments ; Technical men ; Amos and Goliath ; "Fiendish work"; title: Part II. Flash point.  "A hotter fire" ; Over there ; "A constant menace" ; "Science and horror" ; "He who gasses last, gasses best"; title: 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"