Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
Categories: History, Science & Math
In 1918, a flu pandemic swept the world as the First World War ended, killing more people than the war itself. Historian Catharine Arnold tells its story through the voices of people who lived through it. Drawing on letters, diaries and memoirs, Arnold follows soldiers, nurses, doctors and families from the trenches to cities in Europe and America. She shows how the disease spread, how societies coped with mass death and why the episode was so quickly forgotten.
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