El jinete pálido

The so-called "Spanish flu" of 1918, which actually arose among the American soldiers fighting in France during the First World War, was, with its 50 to 100 million deaths, the greatest of the epidemics suffered by Humanity since the Medieval Black Death and the cause of the greatest killing of the 20th century. Laura Spinney recovers the story of an epidemic that appears in our history books as a simple anecdote to show us to what extent she contributed to changing the history of the world, and she does so in a fascinating book, which keeps track of the disease by the the whole world, from Zamora to Rio and from the mines of South Africa to Alaska, and telling us personal stories that illuminate the collective drama.