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The Great Secret
- Author
- Jennet Conant
- Narrator
- John Kroft
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 29 October 2020
- Run Time
- 11 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Second World War
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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, worked in concert to suppress. But Alexander heroically persevered in his investigation. His breakthrough observations about the toxic effects of mustard on white blood cells caught the attention of Colonel Cornelius P. Rhoads—a pioneering research scientist—who recognized that the poison was both a killer and a cure, and was instrumental in ushering in a new era of cancer research.
The Great Secret is a remarkable story of how horrific tragedy gave birth to medical triumph.
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- Author
- Jennet Conant
- Narrator
- John Kroft
- Duration
- 11 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 October 2020
- ISBN
- 9781004016372
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Second World War
Synopsis
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, worked in concert to suppress. But Alexander heroically persevered in his investigation. His breakthrough observations about the toxic effects of mustard on white blood cells caught the attention of Colonel Cornelius P. Rhoads—a pioneering research scientist—who recognized that the poison was both a killer and a cure, and was instrumental in ushering in a new era of cancer research.The Great Secret is a remarkable story of how horrific tragedy gave birth to medical triumph.
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