The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza by the celebrated historian behind Black Loyalists in time for the pandemic's centenary.
It could kill in as little as ten hours.
Extremely high fever, bleeding from eyes, nose, and ears, terrible pain, especially in the head and the joints, delirium--and then its victims literally drowned in their own fluids.
Fifty to 100 million people worldwide died in this global pandemic in the early twentieth century.
Nimbus Publishing Limited Nova scotia and the great influenza pandemic, 1918-1920: a remembrance of the dead and an archive for the living/ruth holmes whitehead
