The People of the Crater by Andre Norton Science Fiction Fantasy

<p><strong>Six months and three days after the Peace of Shanghai was signed and the great War of 1965-1970 declared at an end by an exhausted world a young man huddled on a park bench in New York staring miserably at the gravel beneath his badly worn shoes.</strong> He had been trained to fill the pilot's seat in the control cabin of a fighting plane and for nothing else. The search for a niche in civilian life had cost him both health and ambition.</p>