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Author : Jim Leeke
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640126112
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
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:
Author : Jim Leeke
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640126120
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
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.
Author : Samuel James Manson Auld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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:
Author : Johnathan Bracken
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526710315
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
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
Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1917-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Author : Lee Clyde Ilsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Misuse of Flame Safety Lamps and Dangers of Mixed Lights written by Lee Clyde Ilsley and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel James Manson Auld
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230433974
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (339 download)
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...
Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Miners' Circular written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Gas World written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New South Wales. Dept. of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Mining Report of the Department of Mines and Agriculture [etc written by New South Wales. Dept. of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New South Wales. Department of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Mining Report ... written by New South Wales. Department of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1879 contains atlas.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply & Sanitary Improvement written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : New South Wales. Department of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Annual Mining Report of the Department of Mines and Agriculture [etc.] written by New South Wales. Department of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1875- include also the Annual report of the Government Geologist.
Author : Maud Casey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620403129
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Walked Away written by Maud Casey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a trance-like state, Albert walks-from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia-all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images. Loosely based on the case history of Albert Dadas, a psychiatric patient in the hospital of St. André in Bordeaux in the nineteenth century, The Man Who Walked Away imagines Albert's wanderings and the anguish that caused him to seek treatment with a doctor who would create a diagnosis for him, a narrative for his pain. In a time when mental health diagnosis is still as much art as science, Maud Casey takes us back to its tentative beginnings and offers us an intimate relationship between one doctor and his patient as, together, they attempt to reassemble a lost life. Through Albert she gives us a portrait of a man untethered from place and time who, in spite of himself, kept setting out, again and again, in search of wonder and astonishment.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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:
Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1646 pages
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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:
Author : New South Wales. Dept. of Mines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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:
