The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I Art & Photography "--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"--Cleveland Plain Dealer

For Americans during World War I

ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields

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

Just as Charlotte begins to settle into her new circumstances

The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I Art & Photography "--Cleveland Plain DealerDescription 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