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Book Review of Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire

Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire
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I liked this book, I really did. I read the whole thing. It took me 3 months. He kind of wandered around with his history/biology, making it rather byzantine. His usual work is as an editor, it's like he felt that he didn't need one for his own book (he was wrong).