Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

Laura Spinney

352 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science reflective medium-paced

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With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception...

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