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Albert Palazzo's fine contribution brings sound scholarship and welcome objectivity to a subject often burdened with emotional bitterness. - Rod Paschall, author of 'The Defeat of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918' Palazzo' excellent study of the last months of WW I challenges the anit-Haig views of such critics as Denis Winter and Tim Travers... Most historians emphasize strategy and tactics, but Palazzo points out that the new weapons that proved decisive required long-term planning and industrial organization in which the British proved superior. Highly recommended ... --Choice Palazzo has worked his way through a mass of primary documents and written a book which will probably be useful to other scholars. --The Wish Stream, Vol 54, Summer 2000 ... Albert Palazzo, who concentrates, in Seeking Victory on the Western Front, on the British use of chemical warfare. Let's not be squeamish, be insists. Victory went to those who accurately interpreted the situation and did what had to be done. That was the British more than anyone else...Palazzo seeks to rehabilitate the British military leadership ... But despite his efforts, Palazzo is unable to rid us of the feeling that, by resorting to gas after the Germans had used it ... the British and the French lost some of the moral high ground they had claimed as theirs. -Times Literary Supplement, April 27 2001 ... an enterprising analysis of the British use of poison gas in the First World War. --Army Historical Research, Autumn 2001

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Albert Palazzo is a research fellow in the School of History at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Sydney, Australia.

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