A few of the Amazon reviews:
“[The Burn Pits] really shocked and angered me and I decided to try to bring the story of this crisis to a larger audience… We are trying to reach everybody. Most people have not heard about the crisis of the burn pits and ultimately we will need the general public to help create awareness of this tragic issue affecting thousands of soldiers so that they are ultimately recognized and compensated.”
–Gregory Lovett, Film Director, Delay, Deny, Hope You Die, a documentary based on The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers
“[This] incendiary book, The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers… [is] a provocative look behind the massive burn pits of Iraq and Afghanistan, detailing a chilling history of sickness and systematic neglect from higher ups… Hickman’s account is probably the most thorough and expansive take on burn pits so far, going so far as to implicate KBR, who ran the burn pits, and Gen. David Petraeus, who initially denied that burn pits were harmful.”
–Scott Beauchamp, Task & Purpose
“The Burn Pits… tells an enormous story… An important book that should be on the shelf of every high school library across the United States.”
–John Ketwig, The Veteran
“There are a million reasons for Americans to read this devastating account of how we’re neglecting our veterans. The Burn Pits is extremely well-written, tightly structured, and Hickman’s compassion for his fellow soldiers is heartbreaking. But what few reviewers seem to be emphasizing is that Hickman is not just concerned about our veterans who are dying from the toxic plumes of the American burn pits. It’s not just Americans whose bodies are destroying themselves in a collective vertigo of white spots, leukemia, apnea, bronchitis, cold sweats, migraines, memory loss, nausea, and brain cancer. It’s not just Beau Biden… But what those mainstream publications fail to emphasize is the incredibly uncomfortable reality that Hickman describes with such vivid detail in The Burn Pits. In short, “Iraq is poisoned,” and America has been providing the toxins for years… If you are a citizen concerned with what both Sanders and Trump referred to as “the worst foreign policy blunder in U.S. history,” then you should read this book. The Burn Pits is a map for activism. If you are interested in solving one of the great health care problems of our time, read this book. If you are interested in helping American service members solve the political problem of bureaucratic resistance in the VA that dates back to the days of Agent Orange and Gulf War Syndrome, read this book.”
–M. C. Armstrong, author and Pushcart Prize winner
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