The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

John M. Barry

560 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced

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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 k...

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