The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

John Barry’s The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History combines the many elements of the 1918 influenza pandemic to provide a well written, very accessible book, even as it discusses complex topics.  Barry handles the politics, the military, the genetics, the medical, the government and psychological factors that combined to make this epidemic so deadly.  He ties all the threads together into a coherent narrative.  In the process, he illustrates how important 1918 was in forming our modern responses to pandemics