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

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.

Main Author: Allen, Arthur, 1959-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Weigl, Rudolf, > 1883-1957.
Fleck, Ludwik, > 1896-1961.
Typhus fever > Poland > History.
Scientists > Poland > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Poland.
Anti-Nazi movement > Poland.
Summary: 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.
Physical Description: viii, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index.
ISBN: 9780393081015 (hardcover)
039308101X (hardcover)
Author Notes: Arthur Allen has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Associated Press, Science, and Slate. His books include Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver. He lives in Washington, where he writes about health for Politico.

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