A Higher Form of Killing : Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare.
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TextPublisher: New York/London : Bloomsbury, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Description: 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : Illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781408878224; 1408878224; 1620402149; 9781620402146Subject(s): Lusitania (Steamship) | Weapons of mass destruction -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Ypres, 2nd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1915 | World War, 1914-1918 -- Chemical warfare | World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, German | Bombing, Aerial -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century | Airships -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Just war doctrine -- History -- 20th century | War (Philosophy) -- History -- 20th century | Germany -- Armed Forces -- Weapons systems -- History -- 20th century | Lusitania (Steamship) | World War (1914-1918) | Ypres, 2nd Battle of (Ieper, Belgium : 1915) | Airships | Armed Forces -- Weapons systems | Bombing, Aerial | Chemical warfare | Just war doctrine | Military operations, Naval -- German | War (Philosophy) | Weapons of mass destruction | Belgium -- Ieper | England -- London | Germany | 1900-1999Genre/Form: History.DDC classification: 940.424 LOC classification: UF505.G3 | P74 2015| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and index.
Spring 1915 : The Legacy -- "A Flash of Lightning from the North" -- "Humanising War" -- "The Law of Facts" -- "A Scrap of Paper" -- "The Worst of Contrabands" -- "England Will Burn" -- "A Most Effective Weapon" -- "Something That Makes People Permanently Incapable of Fighting" -- "Operation Disinfection" -- "This Filthy Loathsome Pestilence" -- "Solomon's Temple" -- "They Got Us This Time, All Right" -- "Wilful and Wholesale Murder" -- "Too Proud to Fight" -- "The Very Earth Shook" -- "Order, Counter-Order, Disorder!" -- "A Gift of Love" -- "Do You Know Anything About Gas?" -- "Zepp and a Portion of Clouds" -- "Remember the Lusitania" -- "Each One Must Fight On to the End" -- "Weapons of Mass Destruction" -- Appendix. The Lusitania Controversies.
"In the spring of 1915, war, that had until then been fought on the battlefield by age-old agreements, changed forever. On April 22, poison gas poured into the trenches of Ypres; on May 7, the German submarine U-20 torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania without warning, killing over a thousand civilians; and on May 31, London faced its first German Zeppelin bombardment. In A Higher Form of Killing, Diana Preston links the dramatic events of these six weeks, revealing personal stories from the trenches, on board the Lusitania and in London. In our current time of terror, this is an important and original examination of the genesis of modern warfare." --Page 4 of cover.
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