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As exciting and readable an account as you could wish. The Guardian
Fascinating. Bill Bryson
The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age.
A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. The epidemic killed one-third of Europes people over a period of three years, and the resulting social and economic upheaval was on a scale unparalleled in all of recorded history. Synthesizing the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians, Philip Ziegler offers a critically acclaimed overview of this crucial epoch in a single masterly volume.
Author: Philip Ziegler
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/07/2009
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780061718984
Language: English
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