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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Hardback

ISBN
  
978-0-393-24544-8

Author
  
Mary Roach

Genre
  
Non-fiction

Subjects
  
Science, War


Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
June 2016

Pages
  
288

Originally published
  
June 2016

Page count
  
288

Publisher
  
W. W. Norton & Company

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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, is a non-fiction work by Mary Roach, released in June 2016. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, it covers the subject of scientific research for the military and some of the less well-known aspects of the lives of soldiers.

Contents

In this book, Roach attempts to answer many questions about the military that the reader may not have thought of before, and discusses the challenges that soldiers have to face on the battlefield that do not necessarily directly involve fighting.

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Table of Contents

  1. Second Skin: What to wear to war
  2. Boom Box: Automotive safety for people who drive on bombs
  3. Fighting by Ear: The conundrum of military noise
  4. Below the Belt: The cruelest shot of all
  5. It Might Get Weird: A salute to genital transplants
  6. Carnage Under Fire: How do combat medics cope?
  7. Sweating Bullets: The war on heat
  8. Leaky SEALs: Diarrhea as a threat to national security
  9. The Maggot Paradox: Flies on the battlefield, for better and worse
  10. What Doesn’t Kill You Will Make You Reek: A brief history of stink bombs
  11. Old Chum: How to make and test a shark repellent
  12. That Sinking Feeling: When things go wrong under the sea
  13. Up and Under: A submarine tries to sleep
  14. Feedback from the Fallen: How the dead help the living stay that way

References

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War Wikipedia