Octavo. (61)pp, accordionfold. Thomas narrates in both personal and historical detail the (ab)use of the deadly dioxin, Agent Orange, over the course of the American war in Vietnam. Designed as a tactical herbicide, clearing the jungle foliage that was proving so advantageous to the Vietnamese guerrilla forces, Agent Orange in reality became a catastrophic toxin, wreaking still-developing medical traumas upon both Vietnamese civilians and American soldiers. Thomas, himself a Vietnam veteran, here conveys these terrible aftereffects through both image and text. The former include photographs and illustrations of the physical deformities still affecting the Vietnamese population, who by necessity continue to live, eat, drink, and farm on contaminated land. Threaded throughout the book is an image of a tiger lily, which as the pages progress wilts and decays. Book housed in box, made by Hanoi craftspeople, of lacquered wood and composite materials curved into the shape of a chemical barrel with Agent Orange label. This protected by a silk bag made by Vietnamese-American women working at the Southeast Asian Coalition in Worcester, Massachusetts. Fine.