Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

Spinney's global account of 1918 moves from Alaska to South Africa to Samoa, insisting that the pandemic be understood at full planetary scale. Fifty million dead — more than the Great War — yet the cultural memory refused to consolidate it. She is interested in why: how societies forget collective catastrophe and what that forgetting costs. Written in 2017. Read now with different eyes.