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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

Spinney, Laura

Paperback

Medical ReferencePublic HealthGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $21.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 20, 2026

ISBN10: 1541706420
ISBN13: 9781541706422
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 352
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
The haunting story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times.

Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story. --The Guardian

The flu pandemic 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 far higher than that of World War I, the 1918 flu is little more than a historical afterthought.

In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney reveals how the virus traveled across the globe, exposing humanity's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. She demonstrates how the 1918 flu shaped the modern world by disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, and family structures.

Now with a new afterword reflecting on the impacts of COVID-19, Pale Rider is a masterful account of the catastrophe that forever changed humanity.

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