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.

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Main Author: Allen, Arthur, 1959-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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264 1 |a New York, NY :  |b W.W. Norton & Company,  |c [2014] 
300 |a viii, 384 pages :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 25 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a 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. 
600 1 0 |a Weigl, Rudolf,  |d 1883-1957. 
600 1 0 |a Fleck, Ludwik,  |d 1896-1961. 
650 0 |a Typhus fever  |z Poland  |x History. 
650 0 |a Scientists  |z Poland  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a World War, 1939-1945  |x Underground movements  |z Poland. 
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