| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Weigl, Rudolf, 1883-1957.
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Fleck, Ludwik, 1896-1961.
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Typhus fever -- Poland -- History.
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Scientists -- Poland -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
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Anti-Nazi movement -- Poland.
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| Added Title |
How two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis |
| ISBN |
9780393081015 (hardcover) : $26.95 |
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039308101X (hardcover) |
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