America's forgotten pandemic
Subtitle: the influenza of 1918
By: Alfred W. Crosby.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Influenza -- History
Description: "Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today ... [The author] recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-striken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event." (Excerpt).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint, with new pref. Originally published: Epidemic and peace, 1918. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976.