From WSJbooks: Lawrence Wright, author of “The End of October,” shares the five best books on pandemics
1. The subtitle of this marvelous history is “The Calamitous 14th Century.” Barbara Tuchman intended the mirror in the title to reflect the disasters of her own calamitous era, the 20th century.
She chronicles the Hundred Years’ War, the Papal Schism and enough other disasters to justify the subtitle, but the defining event of the century was the arrival in Sicily, in October 1347, of a flotilla of Genoese trading ships. Dead sailors were still at the oars, so quickly had they perished....
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