When WWI breaks out previously best friends in their New York neighborhood, The Schultz and Du Bois families, take opposite sides in the conflict. When their youngest Little Johnnie Du Bois and ...

Both sides experiment with tear gas in the first winter of the war. But in January 1915 the Germans use a more deadly chemical – xylyl bromide – killing around 1,000 Russian troops at Bolimov ...

In all, more than 500,000 tons of chemical gas agents were used in World War I. Some 500,000 troops were injured and some 30,000 died, including 2,000 American troops.

It was chosen as a battleground by the Secretary of State for War, Lord Kitchener ... into a gas cloud during the Battle of Loos, 1915. This was not the only cruel trick the weather would play ...