how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis /
First Statement of Responsibility
Arthur Allen
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
First edition.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 384 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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
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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
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
How two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Fleck, Ludwik,1896-1961.
Weigl, Rudolf,1883-1957.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Anti-Nazi movement-- Poland.
Scientists-- Poland, Biography.
Typhus fever-- Poland-- History.
World War, 1939-1945-- Underground movements-- Poland.