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Author Barry, John M., 1947- author.
Title The great influenza : the story of the deadliest pandemic in history / John M. Barry.
Publisher UK : Penguin Books, 2020.


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Descript 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Note Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2004.
Contents The warriors -- The swarm -- The tinderbox -- It begins -- Explosion -- The pestilence -- The race -- The tolling of the bell -- Lingerer -- Endgame.
Note In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises, and how to prepare for future outbreaks? At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the aftermath of Covid-19 and future pandemics looming on the horizon.
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Author Barry, John M., 1947- author.
Subject Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- United States.
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Influenza -- History -- 20th century.
Health and Wellbeing.
Descript 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Content text
still image
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Note Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2004.
Contents The warriors -- The swarm -- The tinderbox -- It begins -- Explosion -- The pestilence -- The race -- The tolling of the bell -- Lingerer -- Endgame.
Note In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises, and how to prepare for future outbreaks? At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the aftermath of Covid-19 and future pandemics looming on the horizon.
ISBN 9780241991565 (pbk.) :
Author Barry, John M., 1947- author.
Subject Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- United States.
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Influenza -- History -- 20th century.
Health and Wellbeing.
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Subject Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- United States.
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Influenza -- History -- 20th century.
Health and Wellbeing.
Descript 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Content text
still image
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Note Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2004.
Contents The warriors -- The swarm -- The tinderbox -- It begins -- Explosion -- The pestilence -- The race -- The tolling of the bell -- Lingerer -- Endgame.
Note In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises, and how to prepare for future outbreaks? At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the aftermath of Covid-19 and future pandemics looming on the horizon.
ISBN 9780241991565 (pbk.) :

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