1974
First Published
3.77
Average Rating
376
Number of Pages
During the three months from October 1918 to January 1919 more than 20 million people died of Spanish flu throughout the world. The author of this history sets out to present the disease in terms of human experience, based on the memories of more than 1700 survivors.
Avg Rating
3.77
Number of Ratings
44
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3 STARS
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Author
Richard Collier
Author · 11 books
British historian, was born in London, England in 1924. He joined the Royal Air Force at eighteen after that, as a war correspondent, he traveled throughout the Far East. He has worked on numerous British and American magazines and has written more than half a dozen books about the Second World War. Few of them are: The sands of Dunkirk, 1961, Duce! A biography of Benito Mussolini, 1971, and The war in the desert, 1977.
