The release date for the English version of 'The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History' by
John M. Barry is Oct 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The worst influenza virus in history sprang out in a Kansas army camp at the height of World War I, traveled eastward with American soldiers, and then burst, killing up to 100 million people globally. It claimed more lives in a year than the Black Death did in a century, and more lives in twenty-four months than AIDS claimed in twenty-four years. However, 1918 saw the first instance of the clash between science and an epidemic sickness; this was not the Middle Ages. The Great Influenza is a story of triumph in the midst of tragedy, monumental in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, and now updated to reflect the growing threat of the avian flu. It offers us a precise and sobering model as we face the epidemics that are approaching us. For this version, a new afterword by John M. Barry updates us on the dire danger posed by the avian flu and offers suggestions for preventing another pandemic.