Book About Spanish Flu

A book about the spanish flu could so easily be dreary complex pathology interwoven with pervasive tragedy.

Book about spanish flu. All about it by professor wade oliver preparing for the spanish flu pandemic the 1918 19 influenza pandemic is often called the spanish flu not because it originated in spain but due to it first being widely reported there. An account of its ravages in luzerne county pennsylvania and the efforts made to combat and subdue it 1920 by oscar jewell harvey mar 10 2020. By complete coincidence a friend of mine stumbled across this book set during the 1918 spanish flu pandemic while looking for a more recent novel by the author.

Book cover for spanish influenza. Fiction that involves the 1918 influenza epidemic pandemic also called the spanish flu that claimed the lives of 100 million people worldwide. The setting is a mill town in washington state that decides to reverse quarantine during the epidemic to keep outsiders from bringing in the flu.

Barry s 2004 book the great influenza has never been more relevant. Spanish influenza the story of the epidemic that swept america from the newspaper reports of 1918 twentieth century history book 3 by ken rossignol elizabeth mackey et al. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.

In 1918 philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Free uk p p. I ve seldom had so much fun reading about people dying.

Laura spinney a science journalist is adept at explaining arcane scientific research in an entertaining comprehensible way. The spanish influenza pandemic of 1918. From the acclaimed author of secrets of a charmed life and a bridge across the ocean comes a new novel set in philadelphia during the spanish flu epidemic of 1918 which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.

The spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world is published by cape. 3 8 out of 5 stars 42. 3 7 out of 5 stars 22.