Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History
- ISBN-10
- 152884310X
- ISBN-13
- 9781528843102
- Category
- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
- Pages
- 369
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Author
- Catharine Arnold
Description
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people. German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but globally the pandemic gained the notorious title of 'Spanish Flu'. Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250,000 people died, in the United States it was 750,000, five times its total military fatalities, while European deaths reached over two million. The numbers are staggering. Behind the numbers are human lives: those who suffered and fought in the hospitals and laboratories. Catharine Arnold traces the course of the disease via these remarkable people.
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- 2018-08-28
- 320 pages
- Ebook
- St. Martin's Press
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- 2018-01-11
- 371 pages
- Paperback
- Michael O'Mara Books
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