The war to end all wars only led to new conflict
It was to be the war that ended all wars. Instead it was the opening chapter in a new kind of war, one that could annihilate people and place, replace manpower with metal and for the first time employ chemical weapons.
A hundred years ago this week, the German army opened 6,000 canisters of chlorine gas after days of waiting for the wind to blow adequately and in the right direction, suffocating thousands of bewildered French and British troops.
