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Illustrious Dead The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleons Greatest Army

by Stephan Talty
Illustrious Dead The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleons Greatest Army

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ISBN10: 0307394042
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“Gripping . . . a compelling story of personal hubris and humbling defeat.”

—Jack Weatherford,author of the New York Times bestseller Genghis Khan and the Making of the

Modern World

In a masterful dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, New York Times bestselling author Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world.

In the spring of 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte was at the height of his powers. Forty-five million called him emperor, and he commanded a nation that was the richest, most cultured, and advanced on earth. No army could stand against his impeccably trained, brilliantly led forces, and his continued sweep across Europe seemed inevitable.

Early that year, bolstered by his successes, Napoleon turned his attentions toward Moscow, helming the largest invasion in human history. Surely, Tsar Alexanders outnumbered troops would crumble against this mighty force.

But another powerful and ancient enemy awaited Napoleons men in the Russian steppes. Virulent and swift, this microscopic foe would bring the emperor to his knees.

Even as the Russians retreated before him in disarray, Napoleon found his army disappearing, his frantic doctors powerless to explain what had struck down a hundred thousand soldiers. The emperors vaunted military brilliance suddenly seemed useless, and when the Russians put their own occupied capital to the torch, the campaign became a desperate race through the frozen landscape as troops continued to die by the thousands. Through it all, with tragic heroism, Napoleons disease-ravaged, freezing, starving men somehow rallied, again and again, to cries of “Vive lEmpereur!”

Yet Taltys sweeping tale takes us far beyond the doomed heroics and bloody clashes of the battlefield. The Illustrious Dead delves deep into the origins of the pathogen that finally ended the mighty emperors dreams of world conquest and exposes this “war plagues” hidden role throughout history. A tale of two unstoppable forces meeting on the road to Moscow in an epic clash of killer microbe and peerless army, The Illustrious Dead is a historical whodunit in which a million lives hang in the balance.


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STEPHAN TALTY is a widely published journalist who has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Mens 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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ISBN:
9780307394040
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
06/01/2009
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Pages:
315
Height:
9.6 in.
Width:
6.15 in.
Thickness:
1.1 in.
Grade Range:
General/trade
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2009
UPC Code:
2800307394042
Author:
Stephan Talty
Subject:
History
Subject:
Napoleon - Military leadership
Subject:
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns.
Subject:
Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815

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