Poxes and Pikes: Disease and English Military History

by David Depierre

While the valor of the individual soldier at Rorke's Drift or the brilliance of Marlborough at Blenheim are rightfully and duly celebrated in popular and historical literature. The role of "General Typhus" in the defeat of Napoleon is not. Likewise, while the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is properly revered as an example of those who bravely died in combat during the Great War, little attention is paid to that greater number who succumbed to influenza...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1693658674
• ISBN13: 9781693658679
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"