books.google.co.uk - Europe during the later Middle Ages was a scene of unparalleled chaos. At no other time in history did so much misery--in the form of war, famine, plague, and death--descend upon the earth. At times it must have seemed like the end of the world was truly at hand. And yet, as John Aberth reveals in this...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/From_the_Brink_of_the_Apocalypse.html?id=4xyp-SscNBkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFrom the Brink of the Apocalypse