The Great Influenza
The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
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The Great Influenza
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Scott Brick
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John M. Barry
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease.
Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza weaves together multiple narratives, with characters ranging from William Welch, founder of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, to John D. Rockefeller and Woodrow Wilson. Ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, this crisis provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.
©2004, 2005 John M. Barry (P)2006 Penguin Audio
Kritikerstimmen
"Monumental...powerfully intelligent...not just a masterful narrative...but also an authoritative and disturbing morality tale." (Chicago Tribune)
"Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Hypnotizing, horrifying, energetic, lucid prose...." (Providence Observer)
Daher ist das Buch ein gutes Beispiel wie wichtig Pressefreiheit, Unabhängigkeit der Wissenschaft und fähige Führungspersönlichkeiten sind. Auf die wir achten müssen, damit sich so etwas nicht wiederholt.
Was man eventuell als Nachteil sehen kann, ist, dass die Geschehnisse sehr detailliert beschrieben werden und wirklich jeder erwähnt wird, dem Ehre gebührt, sodass das Buch sehr umfangreich ist. Das Wichtigste wird aber immer wiederholt, sodass man problemlos nach einer Pause wieder lesen/hören kann.
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I can highly recommend the book. Less because of the description of the pandemic itself, but how scientific research and medical training changed during that time. How many warning signals were overlooked or deliberately suppressed at the start of the pandemic. And what a hopeless situation this then created.
Therefore, the book is a good example of how important freedom of the press, independence of science and capable leaders are. Therefore, we have to take care that something like that does not happen again.
What can be seen as a disadvantage is that the events are described very detailed and really everyone is mentioned who deserves credit, so the book has a large scale. However, the most important things are always repeated, so that you can easily keep reading / listening after a break.
Good description what happened during that time.
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Should be called “an American history of the great influenza”
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Also, the book gives all of us who lived through Coronavirus and its variations a chill to read the way people behaved in 1918 towards each other and how similar human responses are.
A book everyone should read
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if you enjoyed that style of writing, then this book is for you. The speaker obliges the overblown style of the book by giving every sentence a sense of breathless drama, even when describing the living quarters and preferred gentleman's club of Welch. If you want to waste 14 hours listening to something that could have been said in five - this is the book for you. If you want to learn something about the Spanish flu, read Pale Rider.
And Mr Barry should have sacked his editor. Or vice versa.
Read "Pale Rider" by Laura Spinney instead!
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