At Night All Blood Is Black [Paperback] Staff Recommended the rise of synthetic chemistry

the rise of synthetic chemistry made the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the battlefield both feasible and cheap

He examines how they maintained their faith in the face of death and destruction

the personalities and the political maneuvers

has been called "Military City USA" for many years

At Night All Blood Is Black [Paperback] Staff Recommended the rise of synthetic chemistryDescription by David Diop Paperback Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so called Chocolat soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Mans Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfas mind