Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I. By Albert Palazzo. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 239. $18.95.)

Despite shortcomings, this study should find a place as a standard work on the World War I bookshelf. It is somewhat narrowly focused on technical matters, offers practically no comparisons with developments in other countries, and never enters into the historiographical issues raised by his subject. Although gas was more important than tanks in determining the war's outcome, little has ...

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