The Great Mortality

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
John Kelly revisits the horror of the Black Death in The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time. This historical investigation combines the personal accounts of those who experienced the horrors of the plague with modern scientific perspectives on the disease.

Music: From the Motion Picture “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship off the Ring” tracks “The Treason of Isengard” and “Flight To The Ford” composed, orchestrated and conducted by Howard Shore

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