Mary Roach, best-selling author of “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” and “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal,” has now tackled the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries — panic, exhaustion, heat, noise — and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them.
In "Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War," Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.
Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.
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