An attempt at reality

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. 

Ludwig Haber s book [859a] provides a modern, incisive and detailed analysis of the casualty statistics for World War I, and has been used here as the most reliable source available. Fig. 1.17 illustrates the estimated gas casualities, and Fig. 1.18 shows parallel data for gas deaths. The total number of casualties estimated by Haber (just over half-a-million) [859a] is less than half of Prentiss estimate (ca. 1,300,000) [1660]. In a similar relationship, 

Unfortunately, Haber [859a] did not attempt to anaiyze his data according to the gas inflicting the casualties - an impossibiy difficult task to perform with any degree of precision, given the many imcertainties involved. Prentiss [1660] did attempt such an analysis, but we know that most of his casualty estimates are too high. Moreover, his anaiysis was based on the data of the American Expeditionary Force, which were only in action in 1918, and 

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