326pp. Translated by Franklin Philip. Jacob, is a brilliant French geneticist. He tells of his privileged Jewish childhood in Paris, his first love, his time in North Africa with the Free French forces, and his uneasy adjustment to a different Paris after the Second World War. Dustjacket in very good condition. Book in very good condition.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  MEDICAL,  GENETICIST,  POETRY,  SCIENCE,  FRANCE  'SECOND  WORLD  WAR'  'FRANCOIS  JACOB'  'FREE  FRENCH'  MEDICINE  'INSTITUT  PASTEUR'  AUTOBIOGRAPHIES