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Previous Volume 353:1982-1983 November 3, 2005 Number 18

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By John Kelly. 364 pp. New York, HarperCollins, 2005. $25.95. ISBN 0-06-000692-7.

This is the true story of a killer. In the mid-14th century, a killer emerged from central Asia and moved westward into the cities of Mediterranean Europe. Over less than five years, in an era in which the fastest means of transportation was a horse, the killer embraced all of Europe, from the Mediterranean to the North Atlantic and the British Isles to Russia. More than one third of the population of Europe died, and, as a result, European society was profoundly changed. The invader was not a human army — it was the microbe Yersinia pestis.

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