Gulf War history/illness expose published (fwd)

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Bringing The War Home
By William Thomas

448 pages, 5 x 8.5" format
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 1-890693-22-7
Shipping February 15, 1998

Bringing The War Home is a war history 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 thw wreckage-clogged Highway to
Hell. 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 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 in researching 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.

What is Gulf War Illness? Where did it originate, and what are the
implications for Americans and the genetically-altered future we all
face? Bringing The War Home brings home a distant, dirty and nearly
forgotten conflict in prose that is unforgettable in its intensity and
searing honesty. Every fact and anecdote in this explosive expose is
fully attributed in an extensive appendix. Whether Gulf War Veteran, a
serving member of the armed forces, a citizen desiring accountability
from elected leaders, or a parent concerned for his children and
generations of human and wildlife to come, Bringing The War Home is this
season's "must read". As Thomas concludes, "We must get the lesson for
which so many have paid in blood".

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