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

by Laura Spinney • 2017

With a death toll between fifty and one hundred million people across the globe, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology, and economics, Laura Spinney recounts the story of this overlooked pandemic.