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"Though squarely a crackling history, “Hellfire Boys” is also a relevant primer on the past 100 years and on a kind of total warmaking that continues to haunt us — sometimes from another hemisphere, sometimes in our own back yard....Emery’s reporting is vast and meticulous, and his storytelling is focused and clean."―WASHINGTON POSTIn 1915, when German forces executed the first successful gas attack of World War I, the world watched in horror as the boundaries of warfare were forever changed. Cries of barbarianism rang throughout Europe, yet Allied nations immediately jumped into the fray, kickstarting an arms race that would redefine a war already steeped in unimaginable horror...read more
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THEO EMERY is a journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, The Tennessean, and other publications. He has appeared on NPR and WBUR in Boston. He graduated from Stanford University in 1994 and earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in 2014. He was a 2015 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow. He lives outside Washington, D.C.

―WASHINGTON POST
―WASHINGTON POST
―LIBRARY JOURNAL
―LIBRARY JOURNAL
―HAMPTON SIDES, New York Times bestselling author of In the Kingdom of Ice, Ghost Soldiers, Hellhound on His Trail, and Blood and Thunder
―HAMPTON SIDES, New York Times bestselling author of In the Kingdom of Ice, Ghost Soldiers, Hellhound on His Trail, and Blood and Thunder
―BEVERLY GAGE, author of The Day Wall Street Exploded and Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University
―BEVERLY GAGE, author of The Day Wall Street Exploded and Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University
―KIRKUS
―KIRKUS
―BOOKLIST
―BOOKLIST