The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time (2005)

John Kelly

finished: 2026-11-02 05:00:00

started again 17/10/26 finished 2/11/26 Really disliked his personal style of writing, which backtracked constantly and referenced previous chapters. This obviously was an attempt to tie the chapters together, but somehow made the book more discordant (I’d often forgotten the details of the life of who he mentions, before returning to an otherwise unrelated paragraph), like time and history bouncing or echoing off walls, confusing you. plus, plenty inherently biased & racist opinions