Bringing The War Home

by William Thomas

Bringing the War Home is a war story unlike any you will ever read. Drawing on his experiences as a reporter and environmental emergency response worker in the war-torn Persian Gulf - as well as US congressional and military records never before assembled in a single volume - William Thomas takes readers from nighttime missile attacks on American forces and frantic cries of "gas, gas, gas!" to the dazed survivors of Baghdad bombing raids and the wreckage-clogged Highway to Hell.

But this is only the beginning of a book that is really three volumes in one. In part two, this award winning journalist and former member of the US military lays bare a Pentagon cover-up intended to bury forever Washington's complicity in supplying the chemical and biological weaponry thrown into its soldiers faces. A succession of shocking disclosures leads us through a labyrinth of political expediency and military incompetence which saw American troops and support personnel inoculated with experimental vaccines - including a nerve agent pill that amplified the effects of the sarin nerve gas repeatedly detected in their positions. In a climactic courtroom-style drama, US Senator Donald Riegle confronts the head of the US Army's Chemical Warfare Department and demands the truth.

Part three of this remarkable and timely book is a mini-medical thriller. Looking over the shoulders of medical investigators we peer into powerful microscopes as they search for a mysterious malady first identified as a syndrome, and later simply called Gulf War Illness. With official US combat-related casualties now exceeding 6,200 dead - and more than 100,000 returning American GI's stricken by a confusing spectrum of degenerative ailments that appear to be spreading to their spouses and children - researchers race the clock and their own superiors’ orders to desist to find the causes of a disease described as more baffling than AIDS. This book concludes with good news: Gulf War Illness can be treated. The chapter on successful treatments will bring new hope to those afflicted by this multi-faceted disease.

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  448 Pages
  ISBN: 1-890693-22-7
  $19.95
  

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