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Trial By Gas : The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres /

World War I has long captured the macabre imagination for the seemingly willful manner in which nations sent their young men to die in droves while fighting over essentially the same patch of land for four long years. The vision of those senseless deaths becomes even harsher and more depraved when w...

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Autor principal: Cassar, George H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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