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The Age of the Gas Mask

Author: Susan R. Grayzel

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781108811804

"It was a bitterly cold evening, and I had just finished giving a talk that shared the glimmerings of a new research project that looked seriously at how the gas mask, a peculiar object that came into being in 1915, could elucidate what it meant to face total war. At that point, the project had begun by asking why many countries including Britain by 1939 to distribute tens of millions of gas masks as the primary means of protecting their inhabitants against the worst elements of modern war. After I had finished, an older man buttoning his coat and tying his woolen scarf around his neck, came up to me to report that my remarks had made him recall vividly some of his earliest fears from his childhood in England, when his brother would put on his gas mask and chase him around their house"--

The Age of the Gas Mask

Author: Susan R. Grayzel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1108491278

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Uncovers how a material object - the civilian gas mask - can reveal the power and limits of the modern state facing total war.

The Gas Mask

Author: United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service

Publisher:

Published: 1942

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13:

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GAS MASKS Collector's Guide for Identifying Common American Military Gas Masks

Author: Ron Ruble

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1365283399

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With more than 650 photographs, this book provides in depth information and a reference guide for identifying 53 common American military gas masks and it also includes information about another 43 uncommon military, special purpose and civilian American gas masks. The book is easily usable by a novice military collector that knows little or nothing about American military gas masks and at the same time, provides a useful quick reference book for the advanced collector. It covers American gas masks and accessories used during the Great War of 1917-1918 to the modern day M50 series Joint Service General Purpose Masks. Additional collector information is included about the quantities of masks manufactured for or procured by the United States military, manufacturing date markings on masks, fakes and reproductions, items issued with gas masks, hints for easy gas mask identification and historical information relating to collecting of American military gas masks.

The Age of the Gas Mask

Author: Susan R. Grayzel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1108870155

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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.