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[Robert Allen] employs his investigative and journalistic skills to good advantage in a well-documented indictment of the chemical companies - and top government and military officials - who 'deliberately kept secret' what they knew about a compound now acknowledged to be an insidious carcinogen. ... The Dioxin War is an exquisitely and convincingly footnoted expose of the oocorporate greed and malfeasance that unleashed dioxin on an unsuspecting world om the boom years following the Second World War. -- Vietnam Veterans of America This book reads like a detective story, but it is an uncomfortable lecture, sometimes perhaps a little too detailed, but a story that has to be told -- John Green, Morning Star

This book reads like a detective story, but it is an uncomfortable lecture, sometimes perhaps a little too detailed, but a story that has to be told -- John Green, Morning Star [Robert Allen] employs his investigative and journalistic skills to good advantage in a well-documented indictment of the chemical companies - and top government and military officials - who 'deliberately kept secret' what they knew about a compound now acknowledged to be an insidious carcinogen. ... The Dioxin War is an exquisitely and convincingly footnoted expose of the oocorporate greed and malfeasance that unleashed dioxin on an unsuspecting world om the boom years following the Second World War. -- Vietnam Veterans of America

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Robert Allen is a sub-editor at The Sunday Times. He is also part of an eco-social group, An Talamh Glas, which publishes www bluegreenearth.com, featuring media activists from across the world.

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