Purple Death: The Mysterious Spanish Flu of 1918

Purple Death: The Mysterious Spanish Flu of 1918Description by David Getz Paperback The Spanish Flu was the worst epidemic in this country's history, and the search for its cause is still one of science's most urgent quests. In this riveting account, acclaimed nonfiction author David Getz tells young readers the story of the mysterious flu known as the Purple Deaththe virus responsible for the worst epidemic in American history. It was 1918, the last year of World War 1. Thousands of men lived in

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From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent more than twenty thousand urban women into rural America to take over farm work after the men went off to war and food shortages threatened the nation

Each book in the National Geographic Kids Everything series has more than 100 pictures

charged with the deaths of at least 50

meets an illiterate young factory worker on the road

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the result is a truly pioneering work of scholarship that gives full justice to a multitiered war involving many belligerents

and coordinating with army or naval forces

the author explores this unique and terrifying world―the rituals of battle

and for those who came home

and persistence

it is again the Australians who are called on to save the day