Pox: An American History

5 best books like Pox: An American History (Michael Willrich): The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, Canyons of Night, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague, How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee, The Battle of Kursk

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Author	Deborah Blum
ISBN	1594202435

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days...

Canyons of Night

Author	Jayne Castle
ISBN	0749956070

There are as many mysteries aboveground on the world of Harmony as there are underground. The island of Rainshadow is the setting for one of the greatest of those secrets: the privately owned woods known only as the Preserve...

Growing up on Rainshadow, Charlotte Enright knew better than to...

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

Author	David K. Randall
ISBN	0393609456

For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials...

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Author

Bart D. Ehrman

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.

The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...

The Battle of Kursk

Author	David M. Glantz
ISBN	0700609784

Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses-including nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,000 German casualties-within the first ten days of fighting. Going...