Starting with the first narrative, that of Kwang Jingshu, a doctor at a hospital in a relocated village that prior to the war had upwards of 35 million people, but now has barely 50,000, we see examples of the ineptitude of society at dealing with a rising plague. That many of these failings are exacerbated, if not flat-out caused, by governmental hubris is no small element.
Offered as vignettes presented by the participants themselves, and moving from the first recorded outbreak in rural China through the most industrialized and technologically advanced area of the world, and even into space by way of an international station, Brooks’s book leads us through a catalogue of the world’s failings.
He asks, “But isn’t the human factor what connects us so deeply with our past?” This work, then, is the presentation of the human factor. The half left out was the human factor-the opinions and emotions of those who survived. It is the seriousness with which the author takes his subject that makes his efforts effectively chilling.īrooks’s narrator starts out by detailing his falling out with the chairperson of the United Nations Postwar Commission Report when he finds that more than half of his work has been left out of the official version of the events. The book’s press material carries on the conceit Brooks gives interviews in which he details the war that officially cost some 600 million dead.
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