Spaniard. The story of the most deadly pandemic. Barry J.

Coronavirus pandemia showed that, despite the development of medicine, we were defenseless before the new virus. This is not the first time the world has been faced with similar challenges. A little more than 100 years ago, much more people died from the Spanish influenza flu than in the First World War.

In the book of historian John Barry, the reader will find a lot of friends. The lies and cowardice of politicians and officials, heroism and desperate enthusiasm of scientists and doctors, fear and panic of ordinary people - all these are signs of the present time. You will see how the world was then not ready to wage two wars at the same time - with each other and with a deadly virus, who killed, like enemy bullets, primarily the youngest and most powerful.

But this book is also a hymn to science, a hymn of medicine: it represents not only a bright and exciting description of the struggle against pandemia, but also a gallery of portraits of people of science, doctors, politicians. In the future, humanity has more than once to encounter unknown diseases, so it is necessary to learn the lessons of the past well so as not to repeat the previous mistakes.