The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved So That Millions Could Live
Todd Tucker, . . Free Press, $26 (296pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-7030-4
As WWII neared an end, 36 idealistic conscientious objectors, members of the Civilian Public Service, volunteered to be systematically starved. The project, headed by Dr. Ancel Keys, was designed to develop an understanding of the physiology and psychology of starvation and to provide strategies to manage the mass starvation that might follow the war's end in Europe. Tucker (
Reviewed on: 03/06/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 288 pages - 978-1-4165-3189-0
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