Description

Title: The War of the Veterans

Author: Collins, John George Francis

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 2001

ISBN: 1876245328

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 154 pages

Comments: Some folks take a long time to die, remarks John Collins, whose 2001 book The War of the Veterans traces his decades-long battle with bureaucratic, political and general indifference. “I was killed by the atom bomb at Hiroshima in 1947 when, like the song, I was only 19.” And dying they surely are, and not merely of old age. The post war travails of the Occupationnaires, notably the inordinately high cancer rates they attribute to intimate and prolonged exposure to atom-bombed Hiroshima (near to which many of the Australians were based) dominate BCOF discourse.