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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History - John M. Barry
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9780786586523 (0786586524)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
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Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense rated it
4.0 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
THE definitive book on the subject of the 1918 influenza pandemic. More recent and way more detailed (and referenced!) than Gina Kolata's book, Flu, which I also read. The particular value of Barry's book, in addition to tracing the actual courses of the global waves of infection (there were at leas...
Osho
Osho rated it
3.0 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Don't, as I did, make the mistake of reading this on a plane, or you, too, will have an influenza/Twelve Monkeys experience of others' ubiquitous pathogens.Barry is repetitive at times. I didn't mind the long tangential segments that provided background for his flu-based sections. It felt grand and ...
Seriously, Read a Book!
Seriously, Read a Book! rated it
3.0 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Read it for a biotech class in college and really enjoyed it- I mean, it shined pretty brightly compared to my biochem textbook
To Shoot or Not to Shoot
To Shoot or Not to Shoot rated it
3.0 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Very interesting. Other reviewers thought the book should have been written as 2 books - one on the scientists, one on the epidemic - but I thought it was fine. This is mainly a book about American scientists (you get the feeling that they were the only country working on the influenza epidemic but ...
There Might Be Cupcakes and Books
There Might Be Cupcakes and Books rated it
1.0 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Two things kept me from enjoying this book. The first was that it could have used some editing. It was so long that Audible split its audiobook file into three parts, and a huge portion of the first section was concerning, not the 1918-1919 pandemic, but the history of medical education in America. ...
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