12.6 But in the Meantime …
234
12.7 Finally, Sarajevo 28 June 1914
235
13 Haber and the Chemist’s War 1914–18
241
13.1 Something Wicked This Way Comes …
241
13.2 Demise of the Schlieffen Plan … ‘Trench Warfare’
242
13.3 Away from the Front
244
13.4 The Battle of Coronel
245
13.5 ‘Fixation’, Haber, and the Chemist’s War
246
13.5.1 The Industrialization of Ostwald’s Oxidation
of Ammonia
247
13.5.2 The ‘Masters of War’
249
13.5.3 Early Allied Understanding of the German
Fixed Nitrogen Industry
251
13.5.4 The Legacy of Oppau and Leuna
254
13.6 Gas Warfare and Haber
255
13.6.1 War at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
257
13.6.2 The First Chlorine Gas Attack
258
13.6.3 Dahlem Berlin, 01 May 1915
261
13.6.4 Haber’s Work Continues at the Institute
263
13.7 The End Game
265
14 Robert’s War 1914–1918
273
14.1 Berlin, August 1914
273
14.2 The Early Treatment of British Nationals in Germany
276
14.2.1 The German Decision for Internment
277
14.2.2 The Ruhleben Internment Camp, Arrest
and Transfer
279
14.2.3 Early Conditions in the Ruhleben Camp
282
14.2.4 22 March 1915
287
14.3 Wartime at the ‘Auer’
288
14.4 ‘The Case of Robert le Rossignol’. British Foreign
Office Notes 1916–17
292
14.5 The Haber—Le Rossignol Financial Arrangements
304
14.6 The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1918
307
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