In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 & 100 million people.
German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but globally the pandemic gained the notorious title of Spanish Flu.
Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250, 000 people died, in the United States it was 750, 000, five times its total military fatalities in the war, while European deaths reached over two million.
The numbers are staggering. & yet at the time, news of the danger was suppressed for fear of impacting war-time morale. Even today these figures are shocking to many
- the war still hiding this terrifying menace in its shadow.
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781782438090
• Author: Catharine Arnold
• Publisher: Michael OMara Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 357
• Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 x 3cm