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The Illustrious Dead by Stephan Talty

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How an eons-old disease — typhus —defeated Napoléon’s seemingly unstoppable Great Army.

Crown Publishers, 2009, 336 p., $25.95.

THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD BY STEPHAN TALTY