American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

By Nancy K. Bristow

Book Overview

Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in the United States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199811342
• ISBN13: 9780199811342
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"