The Black Death

<p><strong>As exciting and readable an account as you could wish. -- <em>The Guardian</em></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Fascinating. - Bill Bryson</strong></p> <p><strong><em>The Black Death</em> vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age.</strong></p><p>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. </p>