Two science books this month, fiction for Yonatan, History for Noam
Yonatan: Berlin Wild. I read this about 15 years ago. I see now that it is out of print so I have sent you a "very good" second-hand copy.
There can't be many novels connecting scientific research and the Holocaust but there is at least one.
Boy survives in Berlin, through his association with a research lab. A little far fetched perhaps?
I loved this, I was amazed to see it out of print.
Noam: Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History.
It is hard to find you a book on the history of Microbiology that I have read. Most of those are either too technical or so out of date as to be useless. This seems a lot better though. There are a number of books explaining the historical effect of microbiology (think the black death, and Jared Diamonds Guns, germs and History) It is from 2007 and does go into SARS etc. I think that you will find it just technical enough and not written for idiots but easy enough to read so that it is not written for academics.
