The Great Influenza (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John M. Barry
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: History and medicine
- Time of Work: 1918
- Setting: The United States and worldwide
- Principal Characters: Paul Lewis, William Henry Welch, Simon Flexner, Victor Vaughan, Richard Shope, Woodrow Wilson, Oswald Avery, William Crawford Gorgas
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Health and medicine
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Doctors, 1910’s, World War I, Medicine, Diseases, Influenza
- Locales: United States
In The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, award-winning writer John M. Barry traces the arc of the deadly pandemic of 1918, a pandemic that may have killed as many as 100 million people worldwide. Barry brings his journalistic skills as well as extensive medical research to bear on the story of the influenza and the medical men who tried to fight it. The result is a thorough yet gripping narrative of both the times and the events shaped by the pandemic.
After a brief prologue introducing Paul Lewis and his first encounter with the deadly...
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