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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 Europe's 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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780061718984
  • ISBN-10: 006171898X
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: April 2009
  • Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
  • Page Count: 336

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