Download or read book The Illustrious Dead written by Stephan Talty and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of his power, Napoleon was unstoppable. But the tiny typhus microbe would test Napoleon to his limit. This work tells the tale of these two unstoppable historical forces meeting on the road to Moscow in a clash of killer pathogen and peerless army.