Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: John M Barry
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.396kg
ISBN: 9780241991565
ISBN 10: 0241991560
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 27 August 2020
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'History brilliantly written... The Great Influenza is a masterpiece' -- Baton Rouge Advocate 'Majestic, spellbinding treatment of a mass killer' -- <i>Kirkus</i> 'A sobering account of the 1918 flu epidemic, compelling and timely' -- Boston Globe Monumental... powerfully intelligent... not just a masterful narrative... but also an authoritative and disturbing morality tale -- <i>Chicago Tribune</i> 'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' 'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' -- Bill Gates
'History brilliantly written... The Great Influenza is a masterpiece' -- <i>Baton Rouge Advocate</i> 'Majestic, spellbinding treatment of a mass killer' -- <i>Kirkus</i> 'A sobering account of the 1918 flu epidemic, compelling and timely' -- <i>Boston Globe</i> Monumental... powerfully intelligent... not just a masterful narrative... but also an authoritative and disturbing morality tale -- <i>Chicago Tribune</i> 'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' 'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' -- Bill Gates
Author Information
John M. Barry is the author of four previous books- Rising Tide- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed Amer-ica; Power Plays- Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports; The Transformed Cell- Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer (co-written with Steven Rosenberg); and The Ambition and the Power- A True Story of Washington. He lives in New Orleans and Wash-ington, D.C.
