The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure

by Karen Masterson

Book Overview

A fascinating and shocking historical expose, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. American war planners, foreseeing the tactical need for a malaria drug, recreated the German model, then grew it tenfold. Quickly becoming the biggest and most important medical initiative of the war,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451467329
• ISBN13: 9780451467324
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: New American Library
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher