Mark Honigsbaum: 1 book
A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics
Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth century. The so called 'Russian flu' killed about 1 million people across Europe in 1889 – including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people –...
