The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved So That Millions Could Live
- ISBN-10
- 0743270304
- ISBN-13
- 9780743270304
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-05-02
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Todd Tucker
Description
An account of a six-month, late-World War II experiment on thirty-six American conscientious objectors assigned to the Civilian Public Service corps traces how Dr. Ancel Keys, the inventor of the K-ration, studied the effects of extreme food rationing practices in Europe. 35,000 first printing.
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