Well-researched and thoughtful.... A fast-paced read for fans of narrative nonfiction..

... splendid.

In the hands of an accomplished writer like Conant, this real-life scenario — and resulting disaster — offers great, if awful, promise.

Ms. Conant tends to go on tangents, which distracts from an otherwise compelling narrative, and the book has rather too much medical jargon for the lay reader. But she never wavers from her central thesis: that the Bari victims were unconscionably harmed by a conspiracy of silence and obfuscation among American and British officials, all the way up to Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower.

... revealing.

... well-researched and engrossing.