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Author:

Conant, Jennet, author.

Title:

The great secret : the classified World War II disaster that launched the war on cancer / Jennet Conant.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xviii, 380 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Chemotherapy--History.
Cancer--History.--History.
Cancer--History.--History.
Mustard gas--Toxicology.
World War, 1939-1945--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [362]-365) and index.

Summary:

"On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Alexander, a doctor and chemical weapons expert, was dispatched to investigate. He quickly diagnosed mustard gas exposure, which both Churchill and Eisenhower denied. But Alexander's breakthrough observations about the toxic effects of mustard on white blood cells, as well as the heroic perseverance of Colonel Cornelius P. Rhoads-a researcher and doctor as brilliant as he was arrogant and self-destructive- were instrumental in ushering in a new era of cancer research led by the Sloan Kettering Institute."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1324002506
9781324002505

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1137819652

LCCN:

2020016332

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