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In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people. German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but globally the pandemic gained the notorious title of 'Spanish Flu'. Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250,000 people died, in the United States it was 750,000, five times its total military fatalities in the war, while European deaths reached over two million. The numbers are staggering. And yet at the time, news of the danger was suppressed for fear of impacting war-time morale. Even today these figures are shocking to many - the war still hiding this terrifying menace in its shadow. And behind the numbers are human lives, stories of those who suffered and fought it - in the hospitals and laboratories. Catharine Arnold traces the course of the disease, its origins and progress, across the globe via these remarkable people. Some are well known to us, like British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, US President Woodrow Wilson, and writers Robert Graves and Vera Brittain, but many more are unknown. They are the doughboys from the US, gold miners in South Africa, schoolgirls in Great Britain and many others. Published 100 years after the most devastating pandemic in world history, Pandemic 1918 uses previously unpublished records, memoirs, diaries and government publications to uncover the human story of 1918.
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Fascinating... lurid and pacy... the page-turning fascination of a detective thriller (BBC History Magazine)
Arnold's pacey history focuses on the stories of the individual, from scientists and politicians to the ordinary men and women who suffered (History Revealed)
this timely study prompts us to reflect with gratitude on the advances of modern medicine (The Lady)
Catharine Arnold's book offers us a coherent, well-researched and sanitary reminder that another pandemic could be just around the corner with equally horrific consequences. (Sir Tony Robinson)
Meticulously researched . . . vividly conveys the terror of the disease. (Professor Sheena Cruickshank, FRSA)
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The influenza pandemic of 1918 was the greatest human disaster of the 20th Century and most likely in all recorded history. Catharine Arnold marks the centenary with a moving and unique history, filled with eye witness accounts.
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- PublisherMichael O'Mara Books Ltd
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1782438092
- ISBN 13 9781782438090
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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