The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I Art & Photography For Americans during World War

For Americans during World War I

Just as Charlotte begins to settle into her new circumstances

Bruce Geelhoed introduces and annotates Kniptash’s war diaries

Waking in a makeshift hospital days after collapsing in the street

the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army

The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I Art & Photography For Americans during World WarDescription By Jim Leeke Hardcover 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 chargeand called on an array of others, including baseball players, to fill out