The Great Secret: The Classified WWII Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer

The Great Secret: The Classified WWII Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer

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Ed Lengel, PhD from the Museum's Institute for the Study of War chats with Jennet Conant, author of five books on World War II, but most notably her latest "The Great Secret"—the gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.

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