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What if you were stuck in a cave with 14 other people for 40 days?

Would more than one of you still be alive?

By the time the HMS Bounty mutineers were found on Pitcairn Island, only one of them was; and their Polynesian predecessors on that island apparently didn’t fare any better (read about that here).

During World War 2, Jewish partisans holed up in close quarters together in Belarussian forests, but they had Germans to take their aggressions out on (read their story here), although they had their quarrels (movie clip below).

The French decided to experiment by sticking 15 volunteers together in an underground cave for 40 days. The time is up, they’ve emerged back into sunlight, and apparently they’re all still alive. Read story here. Now wait for the book to find out what it was like, and how they managed that.

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