Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 [Hardcover]

'Never since the Black Death has such a plague swept over the face of the world,' commented the Times , '[and] never, perhaps, has a plague been more stoically accepted.' When the Great Influenza pandemic finally ended, in April 1919, 228,000 people in Britian alone were dead. This book tells the story of the Great Influenza pandemic.PART I Influenza: A Primer Prelude: Etaples, Winter 1916-1918 PART II First Wave, March August 1918 Second Wave, September-December 1918 Third Wave, January May 1919 PART III Vietnam, February 2005 Britain, Summer 2012

'In this book Mark Honigsbaum shows how the history of medicine can inform policymaking today.' - Times Online

'Read this book to understand what happened to a country caught up in both a war and a disease that killed millions worldwide, led by variously competent civil servants whose responses, or lack of them, have some worrying parallels with UK pandemic plans today.' - New Scientist

'Journalist Mark Honigsbaum's new book offers a vivid account of the pandemic. It reflects on what could have been done to avert the disaster and what should be done about future pandemics.' - Nature

'A chastening read, but mercifully level-headed' - Financial Times

'Very informative and easy to read' - Irish Times

'The book is at its most powerful when it links the events at home in Britain to those on the war front that formed the backdrop to the three waves of the pandemic' - British Medical Journal

'The book succeeds in its aims and is especially recommended for its recovery of the public and medical experience, for its reflections on popular memory, and for its innovative interweaving of past, present and future...The great strength and originality of the book is the way it captures the everyday experience of the disease, from the suffering and neglect of the poor, to the care given to the prime minister, Dal“