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008			200521s2020 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2020016332
020			_a9781324002505 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781324002512 _q(epub)
038			_aAzhar
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aRM260 _b.C63 2020
082	0	0	_a615.58 _223 _bCON
100	1		_aConant, Jennet, _eauthor. _993698
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
300			_axviii, 380 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [362]-365) and index.
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.
563			_aHB
650		0	_aChemotherapy. _993699
650		0	_aCancer _xTreatment. _993700
650		0	_aCancer _xResearch. _993701
650		0	_aMustard gas _xToxicology. _993702
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