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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
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I gave this book an average three stars because that's an average of how this book progresses.
It starts off very slowly with a description of the state of the medical art in the early 1900s , and biographies of the chief players involved in fighting the flu.
All is this is very slow reading, although the author's description of how the flu virus functions is fascinating.
But when the flu takes off, so does the book, and by the time I readed the end it was a page-turner, and I couldn't put it down. I was especially intrigued by the idea that the Spanish Flu set the stage for World War II.
If you can make it through the first half of the book, it is a fascinating history of the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. |
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