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- |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2014]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.