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‘This splendid and often moving work of history… Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides’ Daily Telegraph
 
‘Superb’ Observer
 
‘Extraordinary… A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period… Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past’ Guardian
 
‘This is history of the best sort – humanly engaged but never sentimental’ Mail on Sunday 

Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. 

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    Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
    Publication Date: 2/29/2024
    ISBN13: 9781471169922, 978-1471169922
    ISBN10: 1471169928

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

    Description

    ‘This splendid and often moving work of history… Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides’ Daily Telegraph
     
    ‘Superb’ Observer
     
    ‘Extraordinary… A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period… Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past’ Guardian
     
    ‘This is history of the best sort – humanly engaged but never sentimental’ Mail on Sunday 

    Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. 

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