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Author Arnold, Catharine, author.

Title Pandemic 1918 : eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history / Catharine Arnold.

Publisher New York : St. Martin's Press, c2018.

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ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS
 Drummond adult nonfiction  614.5 ARN    AVAILABLE
 Superior adult nonfiction  614.5 Ar64p    AVAILABLE
Edition First U.S. edition.
Descript 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Note Nonfiction.
"First published in Great Britain by Michael O'Mara Books Limited."--Title page verso.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-344) and index.
Contents A victim and a survivor -- 'Knock me down' fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like fighting with a ghost -- Eye of the storm -- A winding sheet and a wooden box -- The Spanish lady goes to Washington -- 'You can't do anything for flu' -- 'Native daughter dies' -- The fatal voyage -- Ship of death -- 'Like a thief in the night' -- The dying fall -- Armistice Day -- Black November -- Aftermath -- 'Viral archaeology' -- The Hong Kong connection -- Secrets of the grave.
Summary "Before HIV or Ebola, there was the Spanish flu--this narrative history marks the one hundredth anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history"--Dust jacket flap.
Subject Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Influenza -- Epidemiology -- History -- 20th century.
Influenza -- History -- 20th century.
Epidemics -- History -- 20th century.
Added Title Pandemic nineteen eighteen.
ISBN/ISSN 1250139430
9781250139436