Book On Spanish Flu

The pull of the stars makes my second book i ve read about the 1918 influenza pandemic in the last month.

Book on spanish flu. Spanish influenza the story of the epidemic that swept america from the newspaper reports of 1918 twentieth century history book 3 by ken rossignol elizabeth mackey et al. History of the deadliest plague of 1918. Lessons to learn and global consequences of the great influenza.

The 1918 spanish flu outbreak was global in impact crossing social and political boundaries as if they didn t exist. Fiction that involves the 1918 influenza epidemic pandemic also called the spanish flu that claimed the lives of 100 million people worldwide. Unlike covid 19 which is hitting older people the hardest the influenza pandemic caused the.

3 9 out of 5 stars 33. I ve seldom had so much fun reading about people dying. Not so pale rider.

At 304 pages and taking place over only 3 days this book is something and i mean something remarkable. This book taught me a lot about the spanish flu. As the book progresses the flu is cast increasingly as a character that crops up zelig like at important moments in history altering the course of events previously unattributed to it.

Compelling the guardian a book about the spanish flu could so easily be dreary complex pathology interwoven with pervasive tragedy. A book s total score is based on multiple factors including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. After reading this book and having lost my son to the flu the book gave me a deeper understanding of the forces at work and why sometimes the outcome can be so deadly.

3 7 out of 5 stars 22. On a related note emma donoghue began writing the book in 2018 for the 100 year anniversary of the pandemic. These three critically acclaimed authors each take a different focus in.