EI Weekly Listen — Hew Strachan on the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic 

September 3, 2021

The influenza pandemic behaved much like the conflict itself - picking out the young and fit before their time. Read by Leighton Pugh.

St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during the American Influenza epidemic. 1918. Credit: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during the American Influenza epidemic. 1918. Credit: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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