The Bronze Killer: The Story of a Family's Fight Against a Very Common Enemy - Hemochromatosis: Autographed Collectors' Item

I read it because I thought it was a mystery. I was sick and seeking distraction from health problems. What an incredible experience it was to find - instead of a mystery - the answer to all that ailed me!

Now even my doctor has a copy (a gift from me). His eyes were opened (WIDE!) and, needless to say, he has diagnosed numerous HH patients since the days he thought he was dealing with a hypochrondriac!

I cannot recommend this book too highly - especially to the newly diagnosed! - I have even been able to educate my doctor!

The rest of my family - even the distantly related - have now been checked - but it took "The Bronze Killer" to convince them to do this, especially as they were made to recall clear indications, and reflect on others who must have suffered unnecessarily from the complications of undiagnosed HH in the past.

I thank the author for this invaluable book of reference!

Since this book was first published in 1989, thousands of families around the world have found The Bronze Killer to be a valuable resource. More than just the personal account of a family who have suffered through the ravages of this terrible disease, it has been a source of information, encouragement and enlightenment to many.

Included is Iron - The Other Side of the Story, which was the first "layperson's" reference to the genetic disorder that, if untreated, can lead to a destructive overload of iron in the body, far too often with fatal results. Recommended by physicians and clinics in Canada and further afield, The Bronze Killer earned high praise for the author in her 1991 citation for the Canada Volunteer Medal of Honour and Certificate of Honour.

Everyone should read it!

"If everyone were as familiar with the word 'Hemochromatosis' as with influenza, and potential sufferers were detected in time, much of the agony of a crippling and too often fatal disease would, within twenty-five years, become a thing of the past…" Marie Warder wrote in the first edition, in 1984, and she has never ceased to work towards this end…

Hemochromatosis - Iron Overload - who, besides the few, dedicated researchers and the equally few diagnosed patients, had taken this menace seriously until this woman bombarded governments, the medical profession and the media with "Iron…the other side of the story!", the booklet now included in "The Bronze Killer"?

Everyone should read this new edition of the book!

I am confident that there are few people who will not profit by the information contained in this book. Especially in view of the so-called 'Pandemic which is looming over all of us, I feel that it is imperative for everyone to know how dangerous it is to be 'overloaded' with iron - which, to bacteria, fungi and viruses, is like 'fertilizer' to plants!

This riveting, well-written, 'first-person' account alerts readers to the perils of iron accumulation in the body,

More than just about a disease! On another website, I saw this book described as the 'definitive book about Hemochromatosis', and I agree. However,a prominent researcher has written that it is the story of a remarkable man and an extraordinary relationship. He was right. - It's more than a layman's reference to genetic disorder. It's a consummate love story. Love at first sight...the enduring adoration of a teenager for a young man; which would lead her, in time, along an thorny path and against all odds, to a fight against ignorance of a disease. That fight has culminated in the saving of lives around the world.

Find us one person and we have hope of saving a family! - What a lovely mantra the writer and the societies she has founded, or helped to found, offer to the world. Also, while this book has helped millions around the world, how great to find one on the subject, which relates so poignantly to my own country. Victims in her adopted country , Canada, must feel the same.

I do not hesitate to recommend it!

The author's citation, in 1991, for the Canada Volunteer Medal of Honour and Certificate of Honour, read in part: Through Marie's research and most noted book, 'The Bronze Killer', she has educated doctors and the general public about the disease. As a result, Hemochromatosis is now recognised as Canada's most common genetic disorder and routine blood tests for the disease may soon become standard diagnostic procedure. Since then, subsequent reprints have culminated in the New Edition , which is now described as an 'international best-seller' by the 'Delta Optimist'.

Our family came upon this book by more than co-incidence, just at a time when we needed it most. We had been reading a novel in the 'Stories from South Africa' series, by the same author, entitled,'With no remorse' and were intrigued to see a note at the end of it, to the effect that the 'ongoing, non-fiction story' of two of the characters could be found in 'The Bronze Killer'. - What an eye-opener! Not only was the book well-written and utterly absorbing; it provided us with information which has led to the diagnosis of several members of our family. We are so grateful!

Also recommended: Enjoyed all the author's other titles, especially 'With no remorse' and 'Storm Water.'

On another website, I saw this book described as the 'definitive book about Hemochromatosis', and I agree. However,a prominent researcher has written that it is the story of a remarkable man and an extraordinary relationship. He was right. - It's more than a layman's reference to genetic disorder. It's a consummate love story. Love at first sight...the enduring adoration of a teenager for a young man; which would lead her, in time, along an thorny path and against all odds, to a fight against ignorance of a disease. That fight has culminated in the saving of lives around the world.

I agree with the physician who is quoted in the Canadian and South African editions of the Reader's Digest: She deserves the Order of Canada!

The most compulsive read I have ever encountered. Could not put it down and read it from cover to cover! Should be compulsory reading for sufferers and all immediate relatives who may owe most to this book - their lives! In my humble view, "Iron...the other side of the story, which is included, is the definitive layman's guide to "Haemochromatosis - The insidious killer". If you are a practising GP, if you have the disorder, or if you are related to someone who has GH this book is for you. This book may literally save lives!

David of Harpenden

What I posted in review of the previous edition still pertains, only more so. "Glad I read it! Having just acquired my book, I sat and read it straight through without a break. Every so often I would exclaim out loud. Not even in the best of medical journals, not even on the internet have I found the answers to so many niggly little details which I had not even wanted to ask my doctor about for fear of making a fool of myself. I realize now that my doctor would not have known the answers, anyway. "The writer makes it clear that much of her information has come from personal contact or correspondence with many, many victims of HH (and she very obviously cares very deeply about these people). It is also very clear that people felt that they could ask and tell her things, which-like me- they hesitated to bring to the attention of their physicians. I found the answers to the small, intimate things I was too embarrassed to ask my doctor, and she makes the difficult things easier to understand."

I find the footnotes very helpful as appreciate the editors' postscript as it brings the story of the first part up to date from 1988 to the present day.

The first blessing is to be correctly diagnosed if one has this most common, yet least known of all genetic conditions. The second blessing is to have this book which provides a first- hand account of what Hemochromatosis can do and how it can be managed.

Marie Warder is my aunt,my mother's only sister. When I was a very little girl she married a man who was the prince in every little girl's fairy story. Tom's illness , particularly up until the time when it was correctly diagnosed , was a bad time for all the family. For Marie and Tom it was a nightmare.

The Bronze Killer is the story of how this illness destroyed this family. Marie's personal crusade has saved many others from having to endure the horror of incorrect diagnosis and lack of correct treatment. Sadly, her story has no happy ending. In Tom's own words : "It was too late ". You have to read it.

I had just been diagnosed with Hemochromatosis when I came across the book "The Bronze Killer", while getting information on this "big" word from the CHS via the Web. It is a book so full of information, so many of my family symptoms pointed out. It is a book I should have read years ago before I got to the state most of my family are in now. It is such a deadly genetic disease if untreated. The author, Marie Warder, has written this book with so much love & compassion, I could not put it sown until I read it completely, then have reread it many times over. It is a book I recommend to everyone, the sympotms may open your eyes and the life it saves may be your own or your entire family. My family could never express in words the thanks needed to this fine author for sharing her true heart wrenching story with us. It has given us all such a greater understanding of our disease.

A valuable resource, recommended by doctors and hospitals in Canada and elsewhere. Earned high praise for the author in her citation for the Canada Medal of Honour and Certificate of Honour in 1991. Includes "Iron... the other side of the Story!" which was the first ever layman's reference to the most common genetic disorder, Hemochromatosis - the "Bronze Killer".

A valuable resource, recommended by doctors and hospitals in Canada and elsewhere. Earned
high praise for the author in her
citation for the Canada Medal of Honour and Certificate of Honour in 1991. Includes "Iron...the other side of the Story!" which was the first ever layman's reference to the most common genetic disorder, Hemochromatosis - the "Bronze Killer".