Pandemic 1918 : eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history / Catharine Arnold.
"Before HIV or Ebola, there was the Spanish flu--this narrative history marks the one hundredth anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history"--Dust jacket flap.
In January 1918, during World War I, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, the influenza pandemic killed more than 50 million people--earning the notorious title of "Spanish Flu." The United States recorded 550,000 deaths (five times its total military fatalities in the war), while European deaths totaled over two million. Through primary and archival sources, historian Catharine Arnold gives readers the first truly global account of that terrible epidemic.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250139436
- ISBN: 1250139430
- ISBN: 9781250784452
- ISBN: 125078445X
- Physical Description: 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition: First United States edition
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "First published in Great Britain by Michael O'Mara Books Limited."--Title page verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-344) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction: an ill wind -- A victim and a survivor -- 'Knock me down' fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like fighting a ghost -- Eye of the storm -- A winding sheet and a wooden box -- The Spanish lady goes to Washington -- 'You can't do anything for flu' -- 'Native daughter dies' -- The fatal voyage -- Ship of death -- 'Like a thief in the night' -- The dying fall -- Armistice day -- Black November -- Aftermath -- 'Viral archaeology' -- The Hong Kong connection -- Secrets of the grave.
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- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Influenza > Epidemiology > History > 20th century.
Influenza > History > 20th century.
Epidemics > History > 20th century.
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