Chapter 1: The Cost of War

This episode explores the inextricable link between World War I and the Spanish flu...the ways that the movement of soldiers accelerated the spread of the virus and the role that the press and political censorship had on silencing this story.

REFERENCES

•Alfred W. Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

•Carol R. Byerly, Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War I

•John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 

•Kenneth C. Davis, More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War  

•Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World 

SPEAKERS

•Carol R. Byerly 

•Kenneth C. Davis 

•Robert Hicks

FEATURED AUDIO

•Phoebe Golfinos provided the audio for the introductory nursery rhyme. 

•The third Liberty Loan (New York: Nation’s Forum, 1918). The Guy Golterman collection. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.