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

Laura Spinney

'Magisterial' Observer'Riveting' Sunday TimesWith a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists l...