Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers

Anderson, Rick

ISBN 10: 0932863418 / ISBN 13: 9780932863416

Edité par Clarity Press, Inc, Atlanta, 2004

A propos de cet article

200p., trade paperback, very good with publisher's press release laid-in.

N° de réf. du vendeur 228330

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers
• Éditeur: Clarity Press, Inc, Atlanta
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0932863418
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780932863416
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Edition originale
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Psychology, Mental health
  • Veteran, Veterans
  • Warfare, war
  • Labor - American
  • Military History

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Synopsis

For every service member killed in Iraq, 15 others have fallen ill, and 4,500 have been returned to the U.S. for medical treatment. Why? in crisp, clear, compelling writing, a prize-winning journalist examines the health and medical issues--with detailed individual examples--facing American military personnel and veterans, and investigates the military/bureaucratic politicking behind them, with: - comprehensive documentation from the CDC, VA, Pentagon- historical, war-by-war overview of the issues- comprehensive list of illnesses, syndromes and symptoms- veterans' battles over medical services and policy- analysis of military hospitals and services- public and classified military experiments- discussions of anthrax vaccine and depleted uranium- analysis of the high suicide, alcoholism and homicide rates in the in military.

À propos de l?auteur

Rick Anderson is a former columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times and staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. He has also written for Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones and Salon.