Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World Influenza This book is a synthesis

This book is a synthesis of all available literature and periodicals

Well-researched and rich with ghastly details

the wily and skillful Ottoman artillerymen

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the peace-making process and the overwhelming pressures under which statesmen worked

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World Influenza This book is a synthesisDescription by Laura Spinney Paperback The Spanish flu of 1918 1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney