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The Illustrious Dead by Stephan Talty
How an eons-old disease — typhus —defeated Napoléon’s seemingly unstoppable Great Army.
Crown Publishers, 2009, 336 p., $25.95.
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Magazine
In the July 6 SN: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, stone tool dates face scrutiny, ocean plastic goes deep, records of Inca taxation, erosion spurred plate tectonics and more.
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