Mosquito Soldiers
Autor: | Bell, Andrew McIlwaine |
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EAN: | 9780807135617 |
Sachgruppe: | Geschichte |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 216 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.04.2010 |
Untertitel: | Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War |
Schlagworte: | History - Military / War |
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Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies---malaria and yellow fever---on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War.