I picked this up in late 2020, thinking it might be a good thing to know a bit more about pandemics, since we were in the middle of one. It is constructed in an anecdotal way, drawing on many, many sources – and must’ve required daunting amounts of trawling through archives, local newspapers, medical records,Continue reading “‘Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History’ by Catherine Arnold”