Glin Bennet has brought together for the first time stories from pilots, sailors, train drivers, soldiers, victims of terrorism, imprisonment and torture, survivors of disaster and adventurers of all kinds who have been pushed to the extremes and survived, or else have succumbed and left testimony behind them.
Politicians, generals, doctors, indeed all those who have the lives of others in their hands, live under intense pressure at times reaching the point where irrational and catastrophic decisions will be made. Understanding these pressures is the first step in learning to withstand them.