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The Gas and Flame Men

Author : Jim Leeke
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640126120
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Gas and Flame Men written by Jim Leeke and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States officially entered World War I in 1917, it was woefully underprepared for chemical warfare, in which the British, French, and Germans had been engaged since 1915. In response, the U.S. Army created an entirely new branch: the Chemical Warfare Service. The army turned to trained chemists and engineers to lead the charge—and called on an array of others, including baseball players, to fill out the ranks. The Gas and Flame Men is the first full account of Major League ballplayers who served in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. Four players, two club executives, and a manager served in the small and hastily formed branch, six of them as gas officers. Remarkably, five of the seven—Christy Mathewson, Branch Rickey, Ty Cobb, George Sisler, and Eppa “Jeptha” Rixey—are now enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York. The son of a sixth Hall of Famer, player and manager Ned Hanlon, was a young officer killed in action in France with the First Gas Regiment. Prominent chemical soldiers also included veteran Major League catcher and future manager George “Gabby” Street and Boston Braves president and former Harvard football coach Percy D. Haughton. The Gas and Flame Men explores how these famous baseball men, along with an eclectic mix of polo players, collegiate baseball and football stars, professors, architects, and prominent social figures all came together in the Chemical Warfare Service. Jim Leeke examines their service and its long-term effects on their physical and mental health—and on Major League Baseball and the world of sports. The Gas and Flame Men also addresses historical inaccuracies and misperceptions surrounding Christy Mathewson’s early death from tuberculosis in 1925, long attributed to wartime gas exposure.

The Gas and Flame Men

Author : Jim Leeke
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640126058
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Gas and Flame Men written by Jim Leeke and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gas and Flame Men tells how chemical warfare changed the course of World War I, war in general, and the game of baseball--with famous players stepping away from the game to serve and fight in France.

The Gas and Flame Men

Author : Jim Leeke
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640126112
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Gas and Flame Men written by Jim Leeke and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gas and Flame in Modern Warfare

Author : Samuel James Manson Auld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gas and Flame in Modern Warfare written by Samuel James Manson Auld and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Verdun Regiment

Author : Johnathan Bracken
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526710315
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Verdun Regiment written by Johnathan Bracken and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on French soldiers during WWI is “a first-class narrative with an abundance of personal testimony from the officers and men of the regiment” (The Great War Magazine, Editor’s Choice). Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917 and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life. “The book recounts the horror of intense artillery bombardments and men mown down in great waves. None of this is particularly pretty and the accounts do much to scatter notions of war as a glorious, thrilling experience. It was vicious and brutal utterly cruel.”—War History Online

Gas and Flame in Modern Warfare

Author : Samuel James Manson Auld
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230433974
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Gas and Flame in Modern Warfare written by Samuel James Manson Auld and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV The attack of December, 1915--The Allies' good training tells--The casualties analysed--The new element of surprise--Evidences of the use of phosgene--The incident of the bulb--Improved alarms--The Strombos sirens--Accidents to the horns--The Tear Gas Shell--Its chemical analysis--Combated by antigas goggles--Tommies scoff at Tear Gas.--The Germans make it formidable. The expected German gas attack was actually made on December 19, 1915, at about 5:15 A. M., just before "Stand to" in the morning, the venue being the north of the Ypres salient, from the canal bank at Boesinghe down to Wieltje, a distance of three miles. It was preceded by the appearance of parachute lights of an unusual kind and by a number of red rocket flares. Almost immediately afterward gas was smelt in the front trenches. In some cases a hissing sound made by the gas's leaving the cylinders was heard and was taken as a warning by the soldiers in the trenches. In other cases the noise seems to have been deadened by rifle fire. Taking it altogether, however, there was very little warning, as the wind was favourable and the gas traveled surprisingly quickly. There was absolutely no confusion, and the men put on their helmets at once and lined the parapets within a minute. Where the trenches were close together the men had some difficulty in getting on their helmets in time. This was particularly the case in listening posts where we had patrols out quite close to the German wire. In the support and reserve trenches the arrangements for spreading the warning were not so good as those in the front line, and a number of men were caught by the gas before they had their helmets on. Indeed in a number of cases, especially in batteries, the gas was smelt before the...

The Ohio Gas and Oil Men's Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Ohio Gas and Oil Men's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Votes & Proceedings

Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1892 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Votes & Proceedings written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Legislative Council

Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Legislative Council written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the Department of Mines, New South Wales, for the Year

Author : New South Wales. Dept. of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Mines, New South Wales, for the Year written by New South Wales. Dept. of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coal Age

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Coal Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1955-62 include: Mining guidebook and buying directory.

Toward the Flame

Author : Hervey Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Toward the Flame written by Hervey Allen and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Service Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Service Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Principles and Ideas for Doherty Men

Author : Henry Latham Doherty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Principles and Ideas for Doherty Men written by Henry Latham Doherty and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Gas Light Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Gas Light Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gas Industry

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gas Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Chronicle

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: