![]() Engrossing, insightful and laugh-out-loud funny, this is an irresistible ride to the wilder shores of modern military life. Speaking to the scientists and the soldiers, she learns about everything from life-changing medical procedures to innovations as esoteric as firing dead chickens at fighter jets. Mary Roach is a fairly prolific author who brings humor and common sense to popular science. At its best which is to say, for roughly the book’s first half Grunt explores the seemingly mundane particulars of how uniform fabrics are chosen and tested (particularly for their. Setting about her task with infectious enthusiasm, she sniffs World War II stink bombs, tests earplugs in a simulated war zone and burns the midnight oil with the crew of a nuclear submarine. ![]() In Grunt, the inimitable Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. But there’s a whole other side to the gruesome business of the battlefield. Mary Roach is the author of five best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise, of strategy and weapons. ![]() ‘The most entertaining writer in science’ – The Times, Books of the Year ![]() A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize ![]()
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