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Jan 09, 2018 | ISBN 9781101931462 | Young Adult Buy
Jan 09, 2018 | ISBN 9781101931486 | Young Adult Buy
Jan 09, 2018 | 345 Minutes | Young Adult Buy
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Jan 09, 2018 | ISBN 9781101931462 | Young Adult
Jan 09, 2018 | ISBN 9781101931486 | Young Adult
Jan 09, 2018 | ISBN 9780525526087 | Young Adult
345 Minutes
From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic–and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself.Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind; not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, about 500 million people–one-third of the global population at the time–came down with influenza. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million. In this powerful book, filled with black and white photographs, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourge–and the possibility for another worldwide pandemic today.A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year!
Albert Marrin is a much-decorated historian and writer whose most recent book, Terror of the Spanish Main, was called “addictive reading” in The Horn Book. He lives in Riverdale, New York.
“This is nonfiction at its best.” —Booklist, starred review
Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books SELECTION 2018
NSTA-CBC – Outstanding Science Trade Book SELECTION 2019
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