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“John Kelly gives the reader a ferocious, pictorial account of the horrific ravages of [The Black Death].” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times )
“Splendidly written. Kelly has written a popular history based on the best scholarship available, and written it very well indeed.” (Detroit Free Press (**** 4 out of 4 stars) )
“A fascinating account of the plague. A frightening reminder of what could happen today.” (Nelson DeMille, The Birmingham News )
“Stunning. The Great Mortality [is endowed with] the sheer immediacy ancient history yields to only a few.” (Houston Chronicle )
“A compelling and bone-chilling account.” (Tampa Tribune )
“...splendidly written...” (Philadelphia Inquirer )
“This sweeping, viscerally exciting book contributes to a literature of perpetual fascination.” (Booklist (starred review) )
“A ground-level illustration of how the plague ravaged Europe…putting a vivid, human face on an unimaginable nightmare.” (Kirkus Reviews )
“...accessible and engrossing...” (Publishers Weekly )
“A compellingly vivid account.” (The Guardian )
“THE GREAT MORTALITY skillfully draws on eyewitness accounts to construct a journal of the plague years.” (New York Times Book Review )
“THE GREAT MORTALITY is a chilling account of a global siege, public pits, death-carts, silent villages and empty streets.” (Charleston Post & Courier )
“A compelling and eminently readable portrait.” (Library Journal )
“Powerful, rich, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose.” (Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and John James Audubon: The Making of an American )
“Written with a keen eye for the details of the past, it might also be a warning about our future.” (Jack Weatherford, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World )
“Rich and evocative…written in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman, I couldn’t stop reading this work of brilliance and wisdom.” (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone )
