A review by wileyacez
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry

4.0

What a great book! Sometimes non-fiction goes slowly for me because I'm trying to totally absorb all the facts being presented. This book was not like that--I found it very readable and I sure learned a lot about influenza and history. Since this book pre-dated the Covid epidemic, the material included really made me think about how Covid was handled. (I keep saying that only in at least 50 years will we be able to get a reasonably unbiased reporting of what the heck happened in 2020.) The author provided deep insights into what makes a great investigative scientist tick, and he explained technical scientific and medical information in a way easily absorbed by an lay person.