Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World Influenza by Shirley Lawton Houde

by Shirley Lawton Houde

This book is a synthesis of all available literature and periodicals

completed while memories were still fresh

and quickly reached the top of the corporate ladder

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World Influenza by Shirley Lawton HoudeDescription by Laura Spinney Paperback The Spanish flu of 1918 1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney