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I picked this up because I knew a bit about the Black Death, but I really didn't know about the Black Death. This truly is an intimate history, bringing it down to the personal level: what was it really like to live and die during the outbreak?
“Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern.
The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story:…
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
We've all gone down on the Titanic with Rose and Jack, but this book shares the stories of the two nearby ships that either rose to fame and glory for how the captain and crew reacted ... or sunk into the depths of shame. This is a clearly told, emotional look at the different ways people react to tragedy and how things play out when we're not at the center of the disaster.
After every disaster, someone has something to hide...
A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. While the world has remained fascinated by the tragedy, the most amazing drama of those fateful hours was not played out aboard the doomed liner but aboard the decks of two other ships, one 58 miles distant from the sinking Titanic, the other barely ten miles away.
The masters of the steamships Carpathia and Californian,…
