When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS by James Cross Giblin

When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS

James Cross Giblin with David Frampton (Illustrator)

224 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging dark informative slow-paced
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Compassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history--the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS--chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasting social, economic, and political implications...

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