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1) Flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
New Year?s Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight. But there?s something coming that is deadlier than any war. When people begin to fall ill, most Americans don?t suspect influenza. The flu is known to be dangerous to the very old, young, or frail. But the Spanish flu is exceptionally violent. Soon, thousands of people succumb. Then tens of thousands . . . hundreds of thousands and more. Graves can?t be dug...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth--from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal...
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