The influenza epidemic of 1918 was the greatest human disaster of the 20th century and most likely in all recorded history. This is a moving, unique and highly prescient history, filled with eye-witness accounts.
Catharine Arnold is the author of the much-acclaimed London quartet, a series about the dark side of the capital, consisting of Necropolis, London and its Dead, Bedlam, London and its Mad, City of Sin, London and its Vices and Underworld, London City of Crime and Punishment. Her first novel, Lost Time, won a Betty Trask Award. Catharine read English at the University of Cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology. She is a popular TV presenter and speaker.
Catharine Arnold’s book offers us a coherent, well-researched and
sanitary reminder that another pandemic could be just around the
corner with equally horrific consequences.
*Sir Tony Robinson*
Fascinating … lurid and pacy … the page-turning fascination of a
detective thriller.
*BBC History Magazine*
Catharine Arnold has done a remarkable job of relating the tales of
a diverse set of sufferers, crafting an arresting and intimate
narrative of the 1918 pandemic … a gripping tale that swoops down
into the grisly detail, then soars up to give a broad view over the
landscape of this calamitous moment in human history … Arnold
writes beautifully, and starkly, of the tragedy that unfolded.
*New Statesman*
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