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 Churchill denied. Undaunted, Alexander defied
British officials and persevered with his investigation. His final
report on the Bari casualties was immediately classified, but not
before his breakthrough observations about the toxic effects of
mustard on white blood cells caught the attention of Colonel
Cornelius P. Rhoads - a pioneering physician and research scientist
as brilliant as he was arrogant and self-destructive - who
recognized that the poison was both a killer and a cure, and
ushered in a new era of cancer research. Deeply researched and
beautifully written, The Great Secret is the remarkable story of
how horrific tragedy gave birth to medical triumph.
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