As exciting and readable an account as you could wish.
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..
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.
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. - 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. -- The Guardian Fascinating.
As exciting and readable an account as you could wish