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THE GREAT INFLUENZA ALSO BY JOHN M. BARRY Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer (with Steven Rosenberg) The Ambition and the Power: A True Story of Washington THE GREAT INFLUENZA The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History JOHN M. BARRY VIKING VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Copyright *© John M. Barry, 2004 All rights reserved Photograph credits appear on Back Matter. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Barry, John M. The great influenza: the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN: 1-101-20097-9 1. Influenza (History (20th century. I. Title. RC150.4.B37 2004 614.5'18'09041 (dc22 2003057646 Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. To my darling Anne and to the spirit that was Paul Lewis Contents PROLOGUE Part I: THE WARRIORS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE Part II: THE SWARM CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT Part III: THE TINDERBOX CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN Part IV: IT BEGINS CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN Photographic Insert CHAPTER SIXTEEN Part V: EXPLOSION CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN Part VI: THE PESTILENCE CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Part VII: THE RACE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Part VIII: THE TOLLING OF THE BELL CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE CHAPTER THIRTY Part IX: LINGERER CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Part X: ENDGAME CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX AFTERWORD Acknowledgments Notes
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