When Chris Mc Dougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters' a motley crew of English poets & academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete he knew he was on the track of something special To beat the odds the tricksters-starving aging outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness the lost art of heroism They listened to their instincts replaced calories with stored bodily fat & used their fascia the network of tissue which criss-crosses the body to catapult themselves to superhuman strength & endurance Soon Mc Dougall was in the middle of a modern fitness revolution taking place everywhere from Parisian parkour routes to state-of-the-art laboratories & based on the know-how of Shanghai street-fighters & Wild West gunslingers Just as Born to Run got runners off the treadmill & into nature Natural Born Heroes will inspire casual athletes to dump the gym membership for cross-training mud runs & free-running