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The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl : how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis / Arthur Allen.

Author/creator Allen, Arthur, 1959-
Format Book and Print
EditionFirst edition.
Publication Info New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Copyright Notice ©2014
Descriptionviii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Portion of title How two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis
Contents Lice, war, typhus, madness -- City on the edge of time -- The louse feeders -- The Nazi doctors and the shape of things to come -- War and epidemics -- Parasites -- The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Wiegl [sic] -- Armies of winter -- The terrifying clinic of Dr. Ding -- "Paradise" at Auschwitz -- Buchenwald : rabbit stew and fake vaccine -- Imperfect justice.
Abstract The story of "Jewish prisoner-scientists in Buchenwald who made a vaccine against ... typhus. Their untold secret: they provided the real vaccine to camp inmates but a fake one to German troops at the eastern front"--Dust jacket back.
Abstract Describes the true story of how the eccentric Polish scientist tasked by the Nazis to create a typhus vaccine hid the intelligentsia from the Gestapo by hiring them to work in his laboratory.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index.
LCCN 2014003246
ISBN9780393081015
ISBN039308101X

Available Items

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Laupus Popular Reading Collection WC 610 A425 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold