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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.) (Reprint Edition) by John Kelly Paperback, 364 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-06-000693-5 / 0060006935 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-000693-8 / 9780060006938 A book chronicling one of the worst human disasters in recorded history really has no business being entertaining. But John Kelly's The Great Mortality is a page-turner despite its grim subject matter and graphic detail. Credit Kelly's animated prose and uncanny ability to drop his reader smack in t |