The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
by Talty, Stephan
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- Hardcover
- first
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- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0307394042
- ISBN 13
- 9780307394040
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 315 pages. At the height of his power, Napoleon was unstoppable. But the tiny typhus microbe would test Napoleon to his limit. This work tells the tale of these two unstoppable historical forces meeting on the road to Moscow in a clash of killer pathogen and peerless army .
Synopsis
STEPHAN TALTY is a widely published journalist who has contributed to The New York Times Magazine , GQ, Men’s Journal, Time Out New York, Details , and many other publications. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water and Mulatto America: At the Crossroads of Black and White Culture .
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- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 607780
- Title
- The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
- Author
- Talty, Stephan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307394042
- ISBN 13
- 9780307394040
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- HISTORY, MILITARY, NAPOLEONIC WARS (1800-1815)
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / Military;
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