The Black Death

"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.