Barefoot Gen Vol. 8: Merchants of Death (paperback)Volume Eight opens in 1950; Gen is now in middle school, where he meets both a progressive minded schoolteacher at odds with his conservative superiors, and a brilliant but cynical classmate who challenges the teacher's and Gen's values at every turn. Gen also finds himself confronting the corrosive effects on postwar Hiroshima society of drugs and the arms industry on postwar Hiroshima society. With the Korean War offering new business opportunities,