a book
Epidemic and Peace, 1918
Alfred W. Crosby · 2003
Documents the effects of the deadly Spanish Influenza which swept along the United States' coasts during the last months of World War I.
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Maryn McKenna
“I mean, I shouldn’t be surprised, because I started writing about 1918 in 1998*, and read Alfred Crosby, whose amazing book Epidemic and Peace, 1918 (later reworked as America’s Forgotten Pandemic) documented the hole in collective memory that 1918 had fallen into. 1/x”↗