The Spanish flu, which ravaged the world from 1918-1920, was a horrifying illness that killed at least 50 million people, likely tens of millions more. Yet the literature is lacking. It’s easy to find hundreds of great books on WWII, for instance, which took the lives of about 85 million people. But a quick search for titles on the Spanish flu yields just a handful of results. (I’m guessing that our current pandemic will change that.) I tried reading a few of them and had a clear favorite.
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