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.