Plagues, Pandemics and Pestilence: How Deadly Diseases Have Shaped History

This stunning, full-color hardback guide explores the role of disease in history and is illustrated throughout with a range of striking artworks, maps and diagrams.

This fascinating - and terrifying - book explains the impact that disease has had on human history over the millennia. It covers some of the most devastating epidemics in history, from the Antonine Plague of the 2nd century that brought the Roman Empire to its knees to the reshaping of society caused by the Black Death in Europe ...