America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby

America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

Alfred W. Crosby

356 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than those perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spani...

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