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In 2008, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan candidly speculated about the human side of the war in Iraq: "Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier. What does that look like? Who in America knows what that looks like? Because I know what that looks like, and I feel responsible for the fact that no one else does . . ." Logan's query raised some important yet ignored questions: How did the remains of American service...
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The Black Death pandemic is historically known for decimating the European population. However, this pandemic brought positive consequences to European society.The plague devastated Europe by killing approximately a third of the population. Furthermore, Europe's encounter with the plague had economic, social, and religious effects that vastly changed European society and contributed to Europe's emergence into the Renaissance, an age of exploration....
3) The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly...
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