![]() ![]() In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. ![]() And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' Guardian 'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story. Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. ![]() Tells the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer. ![]()
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