A review by bpirana
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry

5.0

Normally I’d get bored reading history in such detail. The book hasn’t a steady timeline and many times I got confused from the many scientists mentioned. But when the book you’re reading talks about a pandemic, and you’re actually living through one, every detail in the book gives you a chilling resemblance of facts, be it politians’ ignorance, the terror and anxiety a pandemic creates over the society, or else. The book was a page-turner for me. While reading the events and the decisions taken at that time, I never wondered “what could go wrong?”, because we’ve got ourselves a very good example of what can go wrong and not based on the policies and measurements that the governments and the institutions took.

Long live science.