Society
Spanish flu
The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, which killed somewhere between about 17 million and 50 million people worldwide; some estimates go higher. The name came from Spain, a neutral country whose press reported it freely while the belligerents' censors suppressed news of it.
Mentioned in
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §5 The Americans Arrive, and the Second Marne§9 Germany's Revolution§10 The Eleventh Hour: Compiègne
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking Overview§1 The Dead, the Maimed and the Flu§2 Paris, 1919: The Peacemakers and the League
- Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings §2 The Distant Blockade and the Hunger Winters
- Chapter XII The Home Fronts §4 Food, Rationing and Hunger§9 Culture, Art and the Making of Memory
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §7 The Americas: Neutrality, Telegram and Entry