A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics
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"Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the so called 'Russian flu' killed around 1 million people across Europe in 1889-93 — including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people — nearly 3% of the world's population. Here, Mark Honigsbaum outlines the history of influenza in the period, and describes how the fear of disease permeated Victorian culture." —Book jacket.
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