The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot

by William Rosen

Book Overview

In May 1315, years before the Black Death, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that followed, Europeans would be visited by a series of curses unseen since the third book of Exodus: floods, ice, failures of crops and cattle and epidemics not just of disease, but of pike, sword and spear. All told, six million lives, one-eighth of Europe's total population, would be lost. This is the stunning story of the oft-overlooked Great Famine,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143127144
• ISBN13: 9780143127147
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher