Than 1918, when contagion ravaged the world, shuttering schools, closing businesses and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became known 102 years ago as the spanish flu is Katharine Arnold who poured over eye witnesses accounts of the illness from it early beginningses at places like military nice kansas to it effect on a number of prominent american writers like john stein barbing and katherine porter. She read has she is the author of self book but the history of london and her book, the world of shake pierces london was pushed in i simon and shoe center 2015. She union us from the uk, woman, california catharine; n tell to go your ofolk tuesdayed on first person accounts, doctors, flurries, children. Why did you take such a personal view of the pandemic . I wanted to write a book that people could relate to. Spanish flu where people could read it and find characters like themselves. At times almost like a disaster movie, get people stuck on the titanic or
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