Book Review – War Epidemics: An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850–2000

One may find the price (US $200), length (839 pages), and title of this book (War Epidemics: An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850–2000) daunting. The subject is also daunting: an elucidation of synergies between war and pestilence, 2 apocalyptic horsemen. However, War Epidemics is largely successful in discussing the subject in the context of what the authors define as “historical geography.” Indeed, this book was not meant to be, nor is it, an encyclopedic account of all war epidemics.