The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War on Cancer

by Jennet Conant

Book Overview

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.

When one young sailor after another began suddenly dying of mysterious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324002506
• ISBN13: 9781324002505
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"