Another powerful line from 'Six Weeks'

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 6:21 AM Share

From my current reading: British Capt. Alan Hanbury-Sparrow, who served in World War I, called chemical weapons "the Devil's breath." (That would be a great title for a history of chlorine and mustard gas.) Soldiers wearing gas masks, he wrote, looked like "imbecile frogs" -- I guess especially in the green haze of chlorine.

 

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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