Plate 36 of 87 · Class V, Gas & protection

Phosgene

A colorless gas with a smell of musty hay, first used on a large scale by Germany in December 1915. Deadlier than chlorine, it caused most of the war's fatalities from gas.

Mentioned in

• Chapter IV Deadlock §3 Second Ypres and the First Gas Attack
• Chapter V The Year of Attrition §3 Verdun II: The Sacred Way and the Long Grind
• Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §7 Caporetto: The Italian Disaster
• Chapter X The Machinery of War Overview§2 Artillery: The True Killer§3 Poison Gas: The Fear and the Figures