[PDF] Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History Writen By Catharine Arnold
Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
By : Catharine Arnold
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Book Synopsis :
Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish Flu ? Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history, now in paperback.In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, influenza killed more than 50 million people. German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers referred to it as Flanders Grippe, but world-wide, the pandemic gained the notorious title of ?Spanish Flu?. Nowhere on earth escaped: the United States recorded 550,000 deaths (five times its total military fatalities in the war) while European deaths totaled over two million.Amid the war, some governments suppressed news of the outbreak. Even as entire battalions were decimated, with both the Allies and the Germans suffering massive casualties, the details of many servicemen?s deaths were hidden to protect public morale. Meanwhile, civilian
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Author : Catharine Arnold
Pages : 384 pages
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
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ISBN-10 : 125078445X
ISBN-13 : 9781250784452
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