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No mercy : true stories of disaster, survival and brutality / Eleanor Learmonth & Jenny Tabakoff.

No mercy : true stories of disaster, survival and brutality / Eleanor Learmonth & Jenny Tabakoff.
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613.69 LEAR
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613.69 LEAR
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ISBN 9781922147240 (paperback)
Name Learmonth, Eleanor author.
Title No mercy : true stories of disaster, survival and brutality / Eleanor Learmonth & Jenny Tabakoff.
Published Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2013.
©2014.
Description xix, 328 pages , [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits. ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off. But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort to can be both horrifying and ultimately self-destructive. Learmonth and Tabakoff outline the physical and neurological changes that typically affect the victims of disaster. Then, using true stories from history as case studies, they investigate the scenario famously imagined by William Golding in Lord of the Flies and borne out by the extraordinary Robbers Cave experiments of the 1950s. As this fascinating book unfolds the awful truth becomes clear. In extremity, humans are capable of a descent into murderous savagery so swift and complete it could - literally - take your breath away.
Subjects Disaster victims
Survival
Intergroup relations
Social interaction
Other Names Tabakoff, Jenny author.
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