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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr Weigl How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
Author: Arthur Allen
From a surrealistic lab in wartime Poland comes one of the great untold accounts of moral and intellectual heroism of World War II.Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the desperate: refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples. The Nazis, who equated the louse with ?parasitic, subhuman? Jews, so feared...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393081015
ISBN-10: 039308101X
Publication Date: 7/21/2014
Pages: 400
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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