THE VETERANS' YEARS: COMING HOME FROM THE WAR. Broadfoot, Barry. Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre, c1985. 249pp, cloth, $19.95, ISBN 0-88894-473-X. CIP Grades 9 and up Reviewed by Volume 14 Number 1 1986 January The acclaim granted Ten Lost Years (Doubleday, 1973), the oral history of the great Depression, Six War Years (Double-day, 1974), The Pioneer Years,* and Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame,** written after twenty-six years in the newspaper business, has established Barry Broadfoot as Canada's most popular oral historian. For this, his latest book, he interviewed scores of veterans, both men and women. The Veterans' Years is a selection of these interviews telling of the veterans' return to what they thought they had left. For the most part, a boy/ girl child left home for strange and unfamiliar places, experienced strange and unfamiliar adventures, and returned changed to a home that had also changed. These are some of the stories of how veterans overcame, adapted to, were overcome by, or profited from this new world in which they found themselves. The tales run the gamut, from deeply traumatic to high farce. For the old sweats this will be reminiscence time. For their offspring and grand offspring, it will be a dip into living history, a good look into Grandpa's and Grandma's Canada. Alfred F. Greenwood, Victoria, B.C. *Reviewed vol. V/2 Spring 1977 p.74. **Reviewed vol. VI/2 Spring 1978 p.92.