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The Age of the Gas Mask - How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Age of the Gas Mask - How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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The First World War introduced the widespread use of lethal
chemical weapons. In its aftermath, the British government, like
that of many states, had to prepare civilians to confront such
weapons in a future war. Over the course of the interwar period, it
developed individual anti-gas protection as a cornerstone of civil
defence. Susan R. Grayzel traces the fascinating history of one
object - the civilian gas mask - through the years 1915-1945 and,
in so doing, reveals the reach of modern, total war and the limits
of the state trying to safeguard civilian life in an extensive
empire. Drawing on records from Britain's Colonial, Foreign, War
and Home Offices and other archives alongside newspapers, journals,
personal accounts and cultural sources, she connects the histories
of the First and Second World Wars, combatants and civilians, men
and women, metropole and colony, illuminating how new technologies
of warfare shaped culture, politics, and society.
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