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020			_a9781324002505 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1324002506 _q(hardcover)
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050		4	_aRM260 _b.C663 2020
100	1		_aConant, Jennet,
245	1	4	_aThe great secret : _bthe classified World War II disaster that launched the war on cancer / _cJennet Conant.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c2020.
264		1	_aNew York : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c2020.
300			_a380 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_a"Little Pearl Harbor" -- "A regiment of wizards" -- "The die is cast" -- "Angels in long underwear" -- "Journey into the nightmare" -- "A special affinity" -- "Recommendation of secrecy" -- "Magnum opus" -- "Fogotten front" -- "A riddle wrapped in a mystery" -- "Frontal attack" -- Trials and tribulations -- "The sword and the ploughshare -- Belated justice.
520			_a"The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy. 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. The Great Secret is a remarkable story of how horrific tragedy gave birth to medical triumph"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aChemotherapy.
650		0	_aCancer _xTreatment.
650		0	_aCancer _xResearch.
650		0	_aMustard gas _xToxicology.
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