Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History

Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish Flu ― Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history.

In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, influenza killed more than 50 million people. German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers referred to it as Flanders Grippe, but world‑wide, the pandemic gained the notorious title of “Spanish Flu”. Nowhere on earth escaped: 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 the terrible epidemic.

Details

Type

Book

Place of publication

New York City

Year

2020

Number of pages

358 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9781250784452

Open stacks or available on request

Open stacks

Illustrations

Yes

Bibliography

Yes

UDC code and author sign

940 Arn

Volumes

1

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