The Death Guard - Phillip Chadwick

Lord knows where I managed to get this from; it is long out of print. Melodramatic title, maybe, but my god, what happens justifies it. It was the only science fiction novel of a man named Phillip Chadwick, was written on the eve of the second world war, and promptly, for reasons of civilian morale, banned. It is actually quite easy to understand why. Immediately after the first world war, a biologist has an idea. He served in the trenches, and sees no reason why anyone should ever be put through the horrors of the front line again. There has to be an alternative. There must be some way to rearrange war to reduce or remove the human burden of it. In ...  Read the complete review